Henry Box Brown
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican magician, illusionist, actor and former slave
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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.
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The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, a lithograph by Samuel Rowse (published in 1850).
Another "Resurrection of Henry Box Brown" published with an account of the story in the William Still book The Underground Railroad (1872).
Featured topics of Brown's "New and Original Panorama!" as would be shown at a forthcoming event in Lynn, Massachusetts (The Liberator, May 3, 1850)Writers from United States 6
About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1815 to 1897 · aged 82
Written about in
12 languages
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