Knopf, 1989.Henry's Freedom Box is the emotional story of a boy born into slavery and his unconventional escape to freedom. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom. Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky.
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There's a chapter about Henry Brown in Virginia Hamilton's history book, Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom. It’s not easy to explain the reality of slavery to children of all ages, but this book does it with eloquence and heart. Kadir Nelson’s unforgettable paintings, which won him a Caldecott Honor, are breathtaking, heartbreaking, and ultimately, hopeful. and abroad as the first person to successfully mail himself to freedom. After 27 hours of travel in the crate, some of it upside down, Henry "Box" Brown arrived in Philadelphia safe and sound on March 30, 1849, and became famous in the U.S.
This dramatic story is all the more astounding because it is, essentially, true. They mail him from Richmond, Virginia to the doctor's friend in Philadelphia, 350 miles away. Smith, a white abolitionist, to help pack him into a large wooden crate. After his wife and children are sold at the slave market, the grieving man makes a bold plan to free himself. Henry later marries a woman named Nancy and they have three children. And slaves weren’t allowed to know their birthdays.” On his deathbed, the master gives Henry over to his son to work in his tobacco factory. The text on the facing page states, simply, “Henry Brown wasn’t sure how old he was. Look at the handsome full-page painting of a somber young African American boy, barefoot, sitting on an upturned wooden barrel, his back against a brick wall. The first page of this eloquent picture book will stun readers and listeners of all ages.
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