Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

Informationen zum Autor Richard Newman is the Fellows and Research Officer at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard. He is the editor of Everybody Say Freedom: Everything You Need to Know About African-American History and Go Down, Moses: Celebrating the African-American Spiritual. Klappentext Unavailable for years, this is the fascinating story of Box Brown who, in 1849, shipped himself in a wooden crate from Virginia to the Anti-Slavery Office in Philadelphia. 6 illustrations. Zusammenfassung 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. This edition includes a total of six illustrations.

Product details

• Authors: Brown, Henry Box Brown
• Assisted by: Richard Newman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Foreword), Gates Henry Louis (Foreword)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9780195148541
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514854-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Sklaverei und Abschaffung der Sklaverei, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Autobiography: historical, political & military, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery