ISBN:
9780807888858
,
0807888850
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (222 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.362092
Keywords:
Brown, Henry Box 1816-
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Brown, Henry Box
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Brown, Henry Box
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Fugitive slaves Biography
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Virginia
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African Americans Biography
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Virginia
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Slavery History
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19th century
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Virginia
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African American abolitionists Biography
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African Americans Biography
;
Slavery History 19th century
;
African American abolitionists Biography
;
Fugitive slaves Biography
;
Fugitive slaves
;
Slavery
;
African Americans
;
African American abolitionists
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
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Biographies
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History
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Virginia
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Biografie
Abstract:
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
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