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

Brown, Henry Box,i1816-1897 [Verfasser]

Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2002

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xxxiii, 73 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references

1-4237-8488-X ; 978-1-4237-8488-3 ; 1-280-53229-7 ; 978-1-280-53229-0 ; 978-0-19-514853-4 ; 0-19-514853-3

 

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.