Date and Time
- Thursday, Jun 12, 2025 7pm-8:30pm
Location
Joel Lane Museum House
728 W Hargett St
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Details
Join us on Thursday, June 12th, 2025, from 7pm-8:30pm, for a talk with Professor Craig Friend about his newest biography “Becoming Lunsford Lane”.
Tickets are FREE but require registration through Eventbrite (see joellane.org/events for links). Seats are limited.
About this Lecture:
NC State Professor Craig T. Friend will talk about his experience researching and writing the first biography of 19th-century abolitionist Lunsford Lane, as well as give information about Lane's life.
Lunsford Lane (1803–79) became a folk hero to many enslaved Southerners, as well as a generation of abolitionists. Author of a unique "slave narrative" and a speaking partner with some of the era's greatest orators, including William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Highland Garnett, William Wells Brown, and Frederick Douglass, Lane became a celebrity who ultimately watched as the persona he created gradually faltered and failed him and his family.
Joel Lane was born and raised in Raleigh, NC. His father, Ned, as enslaved by Joel Lane on his plantation.
About Craig Friend:
Craig Thompson Friend is a professor of history at North Carolina State University. He is the author of "Kentucke's Frontiers", winner of the 2011 Governor's Award, and "Along the Maysville Road: The Early Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West".
