Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed...
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player Henry Armitt Brown (1844–1878), American author and orator Henry Box Brown (1815–1897), American slave who had himself mailed in a box to freedom...
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travel through the mail. Henry Brown (age 42), an African-American slave from Virginia, successfully escaped in a shipping box sent north to the free state...
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Passmore Williamson (section Henry "Box" Brown)
white man, was tried. He was acquitted by the jury in 15 minutes. Henry Box Brown was an enslaved clerk in Richmond, Virginia. The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery...
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Henry Brown was an American inventor, perhaps best known as the inventor of a type of paper storage box. Henry Brown developed a type of compartmented...
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about unsung black heroes. The first video in the series was about Henry Box Brown, a slave who mailed himself to freedom. Parsons has also published...
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William Wells Brown, Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Boston, 1847 Henry Box Brown, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Boston, 1849...
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1850 by shipping himself in a box in which he hid for 27 hours. He wrote a narrative, Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, on his early life and his...
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Blalock Tiffany Haddish as Mae Jemison Lil Rel Howery as Himself / Henry "Box" Brown Gerald "Slink" Johnson as William Tillman Tom Kenny as Robert Peary...
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Jimmy, the story of mass incarceration inspired by of escaped slave Henry Box Brown. Karl "Dice Raw" Jenkins is now board-chair of The New Freedom Theaters...
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