Black History Month 2019

This former slave operated a successful tobacco trade with the goal of purchasing his freedom 

This former slave operated a successful tobacco trade with the goal of purchasing his freedom 

Lunsford Lane was spurred on into entrepreneurship by the burning desire to purchase his freedom as an enslaved African. He began learning the basics of trading at a younger age when he sold peaches on behalf of his father. Soon, he went into wood cutting and sold the logs to his neighbors and other locales….

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