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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 February 2025. American slave, later abolitionist speaker and showman Henry Box Brown The Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849) Born Henry Brown c. 1815 Louisa County, Virginia, US Died (1897-06-15) June 15, 1897 (aged 81–82) Toronto, Ontario, Canada Burial place Toronto Necropolis, Ontario, Canada ...
He was known thereafter as Henry "Box" Brown. [1] [2] Among his many human-mail stunts in the 1890s, [3] Austrian tailor Herman Zeitung mailed himself in a box from New York to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, arriving on July 28, 1893. [4] Four days earlier, another Austrian, Ignatz Lefkovitz, did the same. [5]
Henry Box Brown was a slave who escaped from Richmond, Virginia in 1849 by having himself shipped overland express to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a small crate, delivered to Passmore Williamson, Reverend James Miller McKim, and other members of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. His journey took 27 hours and was considered a miracle of ...
Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter slaveholder, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children.
Brian "Box" Brown (born 1980) is an American cartoonist whose first work was the online comic Bellen! [1] He was awarded in 2011 a Xeric Grant for the comic Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing . [ 2 ]
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Sister Wives star Gwendlyn Brown and her fiancée, Beatriz Queiroz, tied the knot on Saturday, July 15. “Say hello to mrs (x2) queiroz,” Brown, 21, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, July 16 ...