Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) [1] 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 …

Henry Box Brown was an American enslaved person who succeeded in escaping slavery by hiding in a packing crate that was shipped from the slave state of Virginia, where Brown had …

2014年4月3日 · Henry "Box" Brown was an enslaved man who shipped himself to freedom in a wooden box. He developed his published slave narrative into an anti-slavery stage show.

2023年2月15日 · Henry Box Brown was an abolitionist lecturer and performer. Born into slavery in Louisa County in 1815 or 1816, he worked in a Richmond tobacco factory and lived in a rented …

Henry 'Box' Brown Brown, enslaved in Richmond, Virginia, convinced Samuel A. Smith to nail a box shut around him, wrap five hickory hoops around the box, and ship it to a member of the …

2013年9月18日 · To escape enslavement on a plantation near Richmond, Virginia, Henry “Box” Brown, in 1849, exploited maritime elements of the Underground Railroad. Brown’s moniker …

2018年6月12日 · In 1849, Virginia slave Henry "Box" Brown escaped his master by packing himself into a wooden crate — postmarked from Richmond to Philadelphia. Though the box …

2025年3月20日 · Eventually, Brown settled in Toronto, Canada, where he continued performing on stage alongside his wife and daughter. He would eventually pass away in 1897 at the age …

2025年2月4日 · In 1849, Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In freedom, he becomes Henry Box Brown, …

The tale of Henry Box Brown has delighted and mystified Americans for more than 150 years. A true revolutionary, Brown didn’t fit the contemporaneous mold of an emancipated slave.