Henry box brown biography
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Henry Box Brown
American slave, later abolitionist speaker and showman
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The Narrative of Henry Box Brown () | |
| Born | Henry Brown c.&#; Louisa County, Virginia, US |
| Died | ()June 15, (aged 81–82) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Burial place | Toronto Necropolis, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Abolitionist, public speaker, magician, mesmerist |
| Spouse(s) | First wife – Nancy (sold by slaveowner) Second wife – Jane Floyd |
Henry Box Brown (c.&#; – June 15, )[1] was an enslaved man from Virginia who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Henry “Box” Brown (1816-1889) - Blackpast
For a short time, Brown became a noted abolitionist speaker in the northeast United States. As a public figure and fugitive slave, Brown felt extremely endangered by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of , which increased the pressure to capture escaped slaves. He moved to England and lived there f