The Incredible True Story Of Henry ‘Box’ Brown, The Virginia Slave Who Mailed Himself To Freedom
In 1849, Henry Brown shipped himself 250 miles to the free state of Pennsylvania. Though it took him 27 grueling hours, he lived the remainder of his life as a free man and a traveling performer. Library Of CongressIn this lithograph published around 1850 , Henry “ Box ” Brown emerges from a box in the office of the Pennsylvania Anti - Slavery Society . Henry “ Box ” Brown was a world that had everything shoot from him ....