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...

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travel through the mail. Henry Brown (age 42), an African-American slave from Virginia, successfully escaped in a shipping box sent north to the free state...

white man, was tried. He was acquitted by the jury in 15 minutes. Henry Box Brown was an enslaved clerk in Richmond, Virginia. The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery...

about unsung black heroes. The first video in the series was about Henry Box Brown, a slave who mailed himself to freedom. Parsons has also published...

Henry Brown was an American inventor, perhaps best known as the inventor of a type of paper storage box. Henry Brown developed a type of compartmented...

plot in fugitive slave history, even more ingenious than that of "Henry Box Brown." During their escape, they traveled on first-class trains, stayed...

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1850 by shipping himself in a box in which he hid for 27 hours. He wrote a narrative, Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, on his early life and his...

Jimmy, the story of mass incarceration inspired by of escaped slave Henry Box Brown. Karl "Dice Raw" Jenkins is now board-chair of The New Freedom Theaters...

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Underground Railroad depot with their family. The Motts concealed Henry "Box" Brown after he had been shipped from Richmond, Virginia in a crate. Mott...

Rockefeller, Henry Huttleston Rogers, George Eastman, Julius Rosenwald, Robert Curtis Ogden, Collis Potter Huntington and William Henry Baldwin Jr. The...

encountered hostile Native Americans along the way. In 1849, slave Henry "Box" Brown escaped from slavery in Virginia when he arranged to be shipped by...

ed. (1969). Puttin' On Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup. Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-131432-2...

(1995). "John Brown, Henry Wise, and the Politics of Insanity". In Finkleman, Paul (ed.). His Soul Goes Marching On. Responses to John Brown and the Harpers...

was on the receiving end of an unusual and historic shipment, when Henry "Box" Brown, an innovative and determined man who had escaped enslavement in Richmond...

his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician in Washington...

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Rowse is also well known for his lithograph, The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia. Rowse was...

It was Brown's words and letters after the raid and at his trial – Virginia v. John Brown – aided by the writings of supporters, including Henry David...

America (Canada), and helped newly freed people find work. Tubman met John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for his 1859 raid on...

speakers included the former Virginia slave and anti-slavery campaigner, Henry Box Brown, who visited the building in May 1859. The use of the building as a...

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speakers included the former Virginia slave and anti-slavery campaigner, Henry Box Brown, who visited the building in September 1867. A single storey building...

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Governor appointed Henry Northup as an agent to travel to Louisiana and work with law enforcement to free Solomon. Once in Louisiana, Henry Northup hired a...

borrow from these slave narratives, such as Narrative of The Life of Henry Box Brown. Another contemporary genre was the domestic novel, a sort of antithesis...

Illinois Press, 1969), p. 290. Brown, William Wells. "Narrative of William W. Brown", in Slave Narratives, William Andrews and Henry Louis Gates, eds (Literary...

plantation. Henry married Judith, the daughter of speaker of the House of Burgesses Henry Soane, with whom they had a son, Captain Henry Randolph. Henry Randolph...

publishers to southern states; in 1849, a Richmond, Virginia slave named Henry "Box" Brown shipped himself north to Philadelphia and freedom via Adams Express...