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Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) was an enslaved man from Virginia who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Apr 3, 2014 · Henry "Box" Brown was an enslaved man who shipped himself to freedom in a wooden box. He developed his published slave narrative into an anti-slavery stage show.
Jun 11, 2024 · Henry Box Brown was an American enslaved person who succeeded in escaping slavery by hiding in a packing crate that was shipped from the slave state of Virginia, where Brown had worked on a plantation and in a tobacco factory, to the free state of Pennsylvania.
Feb 15, 2023 · Henry Box Brown was an abolitionist lecturer and performer. Born into slavery in Louisa County in 1815 or 1816, he worked in a Richmond tobacco factory and lived in a rented house with his wife and children.
Henry 'Box' Brown. Brown, enslaved in Richmond, Virginia, convinced Samuel A. Smith to nail a box shut around him, wrap five hickory hoops around the box, and ship it to a member of the Vigilance Committee in Philadelphia. The box was 2 feet 8 inches wide, 2 feet deep and 3 feet long.
Jun 12, 2018 · Henry “Box” Brown was a man that had everything torn from him. Born into slavery and separated from his family in a series of inhumane sales, Brown found himself utterly alone by his early 30s. But in a fateful vision, he saw his road to his salvation through a small box.
One of the memorable escapes from slavery was that of Henry Brown of Richmond when, on March 29-30, he had himself shipped in a crate as railroad freight from Richmond to Philadelphia. He made the twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom crammed into a box measuring 3 x 2 ½ x 2 feet.
The tale of Henry Box Brown has delighted and mystified Americans for more than 150 years. A true revolutionary, Brown didn’t fit the contemporaneous mold of an emancipated slave.
Aug 10, 2009 · Henry “Box” Brown and his escape became a cause celebre in the North, but Southerners saw his escape as more Yankee meddling with their property, and pushed even harder for passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, which would force the federal government to help return escaped slaves.
Dec 28, 2019 · After his miraculous delivery to Philadelphia, the former Virginia slave reinvented himself as an actor, magician and hypnotist who mocked racist ideas and defied limits on...
