Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown by Henry Box Brown
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

Henry Box Brown

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

Henry Box Brown with Richard Newman, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

112 pages first pub 1849 (editions)

nonfiction biography history memoir adventurous challenging slow-paced
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It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In "Narrative of the ...

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