Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself.

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Author / Creator:Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-
Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (222 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Brown, Henry Box, -- 1815 or 1816-
Brown, Henry Box, -- 1815 or 1816-
Brown, Henry Box, -- 1815 or 1816-
Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Biography.
African Americans -- Virginia -- Biography.
Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
African American abolitionists -- Biography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
African American abolitionists.
African Americans.
Fugitive slaves.
Slavery.
Virginia.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11212314
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Ernest, John.
ISBN:9780807888858
0807888850
9781469605005
1469605007
9780807831960
0807831964
9780807858905
0807858900
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Brown not only tells the story of his famed escape, but also recounts his later life as a black man making his way through white American and British culture. Most important, he paints a revealing portrait of the reality of slavery, of the wife and children sold away from him, the home to which he could not.
Other form:Print version: 9780807831960