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Henry Box Brown

(Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-)

Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) 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. (From Wikipedia)

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Stearns, Charles, 1788-1860

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Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), by Henry Box Brown, contrib. by Charles Stearns
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851), by Henry Box Brown
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Filed under: Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- -- Juvenile literature

Cousin Ann's Stories for Children (Philadelphia: J. M. McKim, 1849), by Ann Preston (page images at bsu.edu)

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Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-: Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), contrib. by Charles Stearns
Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-: Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851)
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