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Box Henry Brown mails himself to freedom /

Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next-- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Br...

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Main Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-
Other Authors: Wood, Michele,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020.
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Brown, Henry Box, -- 1815 or 1816- -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.
Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile poetry.
African American abolitionists -- Juvenile poetry.
Slavery -- Juvenile poetry.
Underground Railroad -- Juvenile poetry.
Enslaved persons -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Slavery -- Juvenile literature.
African American abolitionists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Underground Railroad -- Poetry -- Juvenile literature.
Enslaved persons.
African Americans.
African American abolitionists.
Slavery.
Juvenile works.
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CMU Juv Coll 2nd Floor

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