Enslaved from birth in North Carolina, he worked as a plasterer to build a number of Wilmington landmarks, including the Bellamy Mansion and Thalian Hall.
After Emancipation, Price was elected state representative and senator from New Hanover County, North Carolina.
[3] During a rainy night on September 21, 1862, Price escaped with seven other enslaved men[a] by rowing a small boat 28 nautical miles (52 km) down the Cape Fear River.
[2] Though they had no way of knowing it, within an hour and a half of their rescue President Abraham Lincoln convened a meeting of his cabinet to finalize plans to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
[2] In 1881, he led a Black delegation to Washington D.C. where they protested the unfair distribution of federal jobs to President James A.