Henry Box Brown
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henry-box-brown-203-9102036
title:
Henry Box Brown
text:
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. For a short time, Brown became a noted abolitionist speaker in the northeast United States. As a public figure and fugitive slave, Brown felt extremely endangered by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which increased the pressure to capture escaped slaves. He moved to England and lived t
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description:
American slave, later abolitionist speaker and showman
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown
date created:
2003-12-13T09:23:38Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:49:51Z
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