The narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown /
Richard Newman provides a 25-page introduction to a revised autobiography of Henry Box Brown, a fugitive slave who in 1849 devised his own escape to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002
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Summary: | Richard Newman provides a 25-page introduction to a revised autobiography of Henry Box Brown, a fugitive slave who in 1849 devised his own escape to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 73 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references |
ISBN: | 0195148533 1280532297 142378488X 661053229X 9780195148534 9781280532290 9781423784883 9786610532292 |