Narrative of Henry Box Brown

Name: Narrative of Henry Box Brown
Author: Henry Box Brown

by Henry Box Brown

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Narrative of Henry Box Brown Who Escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide

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Project Gutenberg

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Tim Lindell, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2021-04-05

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Public domain in the USA.

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African American abolitionists -- Biography Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Biography African Americans -- Virginia -- Biography Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century E300

About the author

Henry Box Brown

1815–1897

Born into slavery in Virginia, he won lasting fame after escaping to freedom by mailing himself in a wooden box. His life later took him from antislavery lecturing to the stage, where he performed as a magician and showman in the United States and Britain.

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