Henry
Box Brown was born a slave Louisa County, Virginia, in 1815 (some say
1816). He married a local slave, but in 1849 his wife and children were
sold to a plantation owner in North Carolina.
Soon afterwards
Brown decided to escape and with the help of a sympathetic tobacconist,
he arranged to be sent in a box to James McKim, an anti-slavery
campaigner in Pennsylvania and a member of the Underground Railroad.
(Hence the name Henry Box).
Brown survived the jo (showing 500 of 1267 characters). |
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