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Author : Henry Box Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OXFORD:590171260
The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.
Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807888850
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 return, and his rejection of the slaveholders' religion--painful episodes that fueled his desire for freedom. This edition comprises the most complete and faithful representation of Brown's life, fully annotated for the first time. John Ernest also provides an insightful introduction that places Brown's life in its historical setting and illuminates the challenges Brown faced in an often threatening world, both before and after his legendary escape.
Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536221664
In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped himself out of slavery. What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that, long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope — and help — came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape! In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown’s story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom. Strikingly illustrated in rich hues and patterns by artist Michele Wood, Box is augmented with historical records and an introductory excerpt from Henry’s own writing as well as a time line, notes from the author, and a bibliography.
Author : Ellen Levine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338082654
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
Author : Henry Box Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1420978152
Born in to slavery in 1815 or 1816 on a plantation in Louisa County, Virginia, Henry Brown would work as a slave in Richmond until his daring escape in 1849. In August 1848 Henry Brown's wife and three children were sold to a new master and relocated to North Carolina. Deeply affected by this loss, Brown decided to take the risk of escaping from his bondage. In one of the more creative examples of the escaped slave narrative, Brown, with the help of James C. A. Smith, a free black dentist, and Samuel A. Smith, a white shoemaker, fitted himself in a wooden box and shipped himself on the Adams Express, a railroad package service. After a twenty-six hour journey by wagon, steamboat, rail, and ferry, Brown finally emerged from his box at the Philadelphia office of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Following his emancipation, Henry Brown would become an active participant in the abolitionist movement. First published in 1851, the "Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown" relates Brown's life from childhood until his escape. Although not particularly important in the advancement of the abolitionist movement, this work was a commercial success upon its original publication, and remains an important part of the canon of American slave narratives. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Author : Jeffrey Ruggles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American abolitionists
ISBN : UCSC:32106017366144
"THE UNBOXING OF HENRY BROWN documents the amazing life of Henry Box Brown, whose daring escape from slavery sealed in a box has become a celebrated saga of the Underground Railroad. Based on more than a decade of research in the United States and England, Jeffrey Ruggles tells the dramatic but true story of Brown, an industrial slave in Virginia, an abolitionist activist in New England, and a performer for a quarter-century on the English stage." -- page 4 of cover.
Author : Henry Box Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:904356416
This unique first-hand account of a life in slavery by Henry Box Brown, demonstrates how slavery was unbearable even under the best of conditions. Brown was born a slave in 1816 in Louisa County, Virginia and lived there for thirty-three years. After a childhood of relative ease, he was bequeathed to his master's son, who sent him to work in his tobacco factory under the authority of an unfair, hypocritical overseer. Although his experiences in slavery were comparatively mild, and he was not subjected to physical violence, Brown was not content to be a slave and thus decided to escape. He had himself sealed in a small wooden box and shipped to friends in Philadelphia. His narrative as told to Charles Stearns, was published in 1849 to raise funds so he could purchase freedom for his wife and children.
Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0060583118
An award-winning author and illustrator join forces in an emotional retelling of Henry “Box” Brown's famed escape from slavery that is celebrated for its daring and originality.
Author : Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00017683
Author : Henry Box Brown
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498153968
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1851 Edition.
Author : Henry Bibb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : African American abolitionists
ISBN : IND:30000005099258
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Slavery
ISBN : UCD:31175035603623
Narrative of the author's experiences as a slave in St. Louis and elsewhere.
Author : Charles T. Davis,Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195362022
These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.
Author : Sarah N. Roth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043688
In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble black martyr. This radical reshaping of black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture.
Author : Doug Peterson
Publisher : Kingstone Media
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781936164332
"Based on the true story of Henry "Box" Brown's amazing escape from slavery"--Cover.