# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-box-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:34:10.982Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-box-brown"
name: "Henry Box Brown"
slug: "henry-box-brown"
description: "Henry \"Box\" Brown 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."
tagline: "American magician, illusionist, actor and former slave"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Box_Brown.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1815"
deathDate: "1897-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.79
  momentum:             7.957559681697612
  historical:           10.03327466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Henry Box Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "هنري بوكس براون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هنرى بوكس براون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown"
    title: "Henry Box Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown"
    title: "Henry Box Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown"
    title: "Henry Box Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown"
    title: "Henry Box Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown"
    title: "Henry Box Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown"
    title: "Henry Box Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D5%B6%D6%80%D5%AB_%D4%B2%D5%B8%D6%84%D5%BD_%D4%B2%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6"
    title: "Հենրի Բոքս Բրաուն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown"
    title: "Henry Box Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown"
    title: "Henry Box Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3132652"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump