Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself:
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1. Verfasser: Brown, Henry Box (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Emergence of Henry "Box" Brown; A Note on the Text; Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself; Appendix A: Illustrations; Appendix B: Henry Box Brown in the Press; Appendix C: From the United States to England: The Two Narratives; Works Cited; Index
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
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ISBN:0807888850
9780807888858

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