Henry 'Box' Brown

Henry Brown Was A Slave In North Carolina – Until He Mailed Himself To FreedomAfter his family was sold off to another slave owner, Henry Box Brown devised a daring plan to escape slavery once and for all.

Henry "Box" BrownHenry "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.

New Evidence Tells Of Man’s Escape From Slavery In A BoxImagine being stuffed inside a small box and traveling by rail from Richmond to Pennsylvania. Now imagine making that journey in 1849. That's exactly what the slave Henry "Box" Brown did in order to ensure his freedom. Recently, a letter documenting Brown's arrival in Pennsylvania was uncovered. Host Michel Martin explores the amazing story of Henry "Box" Brown, and where his journey took him after he gained his freedom with Jeffrey Ruggles. He's a curator at the Virginia Historical Society and author of the book "The Unboxing of Henry Brown".

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Listen online, download the mp3 file, and read the transcript at https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124531047

Henry Box Brown

Sankofa Read Aloud

Published on Jan 24, 2018

A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse.

One Noble Journey: A Box Marked Freedom

Transcript at henry-box-brown-youtube-transcript.txt

NEHgov

Published on Jan 29, 2015

In this video, an actor playing Henry “Box” Brown tells the story of how he poured vitriol on his hand in order to be excused from work for a few days. During this time, he cogitated upon a plan of escape which involved packing himself in a box and having the box shipped to the city of Philadelphia. He shows how he fit into the box and details the experience of being upside down for the many hours of the trip leading finally to the belief that he would die.

New York Times

When Special Delivery Meant Deliverance for a Fugitive Slave

BY ALISON LEIGH COWAN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/when-special-delivery-meant-deliverance-for-a-fugitive-slave/?pagemode=print&scp=1&sq=henry%20brown&st=cse

An eye-witness account from the man who opened a box and found a human being inside.

Annotated Letter and Other Records »