Brown's first decades are described in The Narrative of Henry Box Brown Written By Himself (1849). Henry Box Brown lived in Toronto for the last decade of his life. He died in 1897 and is buried ...

Henry “Box” Brown pulled off one of the great escapes from slavery when he shipped himself in a box to gain freedom. Born into slavery in Louisa County, Brown was sent to work at a Richmond ...

Henry Box Brown shipped himself from a slave state to a free state in 1849. Undermain Theatre s production of Box imagines an alternative ending to Brown s life after his escape from slavery.( ...

The little-known history of Henry Box Brown. He escaped slavery in the U.S. by mailing himself in a box to a free state, became a magician, and eventually settled in Toronto where he's buried.

Every student of American history has heard of Henry “Box” Brown. But what distinguished him is often reduced to a headline: ...

‘The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia,’ an 1850 lithograph by Samuel W. Rowse. An illustration titled ‘Resurrection of Henry Box Brown’ from William Still’s 1872 book ‘T ...