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Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown / written by himself.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-.
- Brown, Henry Box.
- Fugitive slaves--Virginia--Biography.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Slavery--Virginia.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 73 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is an 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiii).
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9780197714850
- 0197714854
- 9780190287481
- 0190287489
- 9781423784883
- 142378488X
- 9781280532290
- 1280532297
- 9780198033875
- 0198033877
- OCLC:
- 689995540
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