The commemoration of Henry “Box” Brown in a public ceremony on Thursday comes after a years-long push by Corktown residents to have previously unnamed laneways tucked between Bright Street ...

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.( ...

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 ...