The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia

The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from Richmond, Virginia, in a box 3 feet long, 2.5 feet deep and 2 feet wide. A somewhat comic yet sympathetic portrayal of the culminating episode in the flight of slave Henry Brown. Henry Brown escaped from Richmond Virginia. In the office of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, the young Brown emerges from a crate as several figures, including Frederick Douglass (holding a claw hammer at left) look on

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