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  1. Henry Brown is an American film, television and stage actor whose career began in the early 1970s. With over sixty credits, he has appeared in over thirty films and thirty television shows. He quite often plays policemen and law enforcement officials.

  2. This rare lithograph, titled The Resurrection of Henry “Box” Brown at Philadelphia, shows the moment that the box was opened in the office of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and Brown emerged. The print is probably the only portrait of Henry Box Brown from life, and the artist likely also drew the box from life.

  3. 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. In 1848, his wife and children were sold away to North Carolina.

  4. Jun 22, 2021 · Henry 'Box' Brown. Henry Brown arrives in a wooden crate. Image courtesy: Library of Congress. Henry Brown was born into slavery in Virginia in 1815. Brown dreamed of freedom, and convinced a storekeeper to ship him to freedom in a crate.

  5. 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.

  6. Nov 14, 2022 · Henry Brown, the slave boy who worked on a plantation, was gone forever. He was now Henry “Box” Brown, the first person to ever mail themselves from slavery to freedom.

  7. Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) was a 19th-century Virginia slave 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.

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