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Henry Box Brown ( c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) [1] 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 . For a short time, Brown became a noted abolitionist speaker in the northeast United States.
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 23, 2022 · On an early spring morning in 1849, an enslaved Black man named Henry Brown folded himself into a three-foot by two-foot wooden crate.
Mar 14, 2002 · In 1849, Henry Brown escaped from slavery by shipping himself in a crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. Twenty seven hours and three hundred and fifty miles later, Brown stepped out of his box to begin a new life.
Jun 22, 2021 · 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. On March 29, 1849, Brown climbed into a wooden box that was 3-feet and 1-inch long, 2-feet and 6-inches high, and 2-feet wide, and had three holes for air.
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 19th-century...
Mar 10, 2010 · That's exactly what the enslaved American Henry Brown did in March of 1849, a feat that was both an amazing and harrowing journey. So much so that Henry Brown adopted the middle name Box to...
Henry “Box” Brown, the celebrated American fugitive slave, begs most respectfully to inform the nobility, gentry and inhabitants of Exeter, and surrounding neighbourhood, that he will exhibit his original grand panorama of American slavery.
Feb 23, 2021 · But then hope — and help — came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape! In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford...
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.
