Author: Henry Box BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.
Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself
Author: Henry Box BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
Author: John ErnestPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888850
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Brown not only tells the story of his famed escape, but also recounts his later life as a black man making his way through white American and British culture. Most important, he paints a revealing portrait of the reality of slavery, of the wife and children sold away from him, the home to which he could not return, and his rejection of the slaveholders' religion--painful episodes that fueled his desire for freedom. This edition comprises the most complete and faithful representation of Brown's life, fully annotated for the first time. John Ernest also provides an insightful introduction that places Brown's life in its historical setting and illuminates the challenges Brown faced in an often threatening world, both before and after his legendary escape.
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown
Author: Henry Box BrownPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486805107
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Memoir of escape from slavery by a man who hid inside a crate shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia. "Just as relevant now as it was 150 years ago." — Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Author: Carole Boston WeatherfordPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 153622166X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped himself out of slavery. What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that, long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope — and help — came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape! In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown’s story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom. Strikingly illustrated in rich hues and patterns by artist Michele Wood, Box is augmented with historical records and an introductory excerpt from Henry’s own writing as well as a time line, notes from the author, and a bibliography.
Henry's Freedom Box
Author: Ellen LevinePublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338082655
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
The Unboxing of Henry Brown
Author: Jeffrey RugglesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"THE UNBOXING OF HENRY BROWN documents the amazing life of Henry Box Brown, whose daring escape from slavery sealed in a box has become a celebrated saga of the Underground Railroad. Based on more than a decade of research in the United States and England, Jeffrey Ruggles tells the dramatic but true story of Brown, an industrial slave in Virginia, an abolitionist activist in New England, and a performer for a quarter-century on the English stage." -- page 4 of cover.
Freedom Song
Author: Sally M. WalkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780060583118
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
An award-winning author and illustrator join forces in an emotional retelling of Henry “Box” Brown's famed escape from slavery that is celebrated for its daring and originality.
Slave Life in Georgia
Author: John BrownDefending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South
Author: Paul FinkelmanPublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319169295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This new edition of Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South introduces the vast number of ways in which educated Southern thinkers and theorists defended the institution of slavery. This book collects and explores the elaborately detailed pro-slavery arguments rooted in religion, law, politics, science, and economics. In his introduction, now updated to include the relationship between early Christianity and slavery, Paul Finkelman discusses how early world societies legitimized slavery, the distinction between Northern and Southern ideas about slavery, and how the ideology of the American Revolution prompted the need for a defense of slavery. The rich collection of documents allows for a thorough examination of these ideas through poems, images, speeches, correspondences, and essays. This edition features two new documents that highlight women’s voices and the role of women in the movement to defend slavery plus a visual document that demonstrates how the notion of black inferiority and separateness was defended through the science of the time. Document headnotes and a chronology, plus updated questions for consideration and selected bibliography help students engage with the documents to understand the minds of those who defended slavery. Available in print and e-book formats.
The Slave's Narrative
Author: Charles T. DavisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195362020
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.