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Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown / written by himself.

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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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