North Carolina honors former slave who bought his freedom
RALEIGH — As a young slave, Lunsford Lane glimpsed a path to freedom when he sold a basket of peaches and collected 30 cents — the first money he’d ever touched.Not long after that, he won a few marbles and sold those, too, adding 60 cents to his pile.Slowly, Lane built a nest egg out of odd jobs, chopping extra wood at night, selling flavored tobacco and handmade pipes to members of the North Carolina state legislature in Raleigh. He […]
