Title The narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown / written by himself ; introduction by Richard Newman ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Description	1 online resource (xxxiii, 73 pages) : illustrations
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	Richard Newman provides a 25-page introduction to a revised 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.
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Subject	Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-
	Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-
	Brown, Henry Box.
	Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Biography.
	Fugitive slaves.
	Virginia.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	African Americans -- Virginia -- Biography.
	African Americans.
	Slavery -- Virginia -- History.
	Slavery.
	History.
	African American abolitionists -- Biography.
	African American abolitionists -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Brown, Henry Box, b. 1816. Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2001055421
ISBN	142378488X (electronic book)
	9781423784883 (electronic book)
	1280532297
	9781280532290
	9780195148534
	0195148533
	0195148541 (Paper)
	9780195148541
	0195148533