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Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) [1] was an enslaved man from Virginia who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Henry Brown (fl. 1863 – died October 25, 1866) was an American servant who worked in the U.S. executive mansion, the White House, as an assistant steward. [1] He had worked for Andrew Johnson "for many years past," [2] and was likely enslaved by him, and had continued with him as a paid servant after emancipation. [3]
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]
Formerly enslaved himself, the bright and inquisitive little boy uses his gifts of observation to help his employer Ridgeway (played by Joel Edgerton), who purchased and freed him, recapture Black ...
Henry Box Brown (1815–1897), American slave who had himself mailed in a box to freedom Henry C. Brown (1820–1906), American carpenter, architect and real estate developer in Denver Henry Harrison Brown (1840–1918), American spiritualist and early New Thought leader and author
In around 1848, Brown became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln, the future President of the United States. [8] To supplement his "meager" income as a preacher, [9] Brown worked for Lincoln and his family for over 12 years, serving in various roles as a handyman, shoemaker, and assistant until Lincoln and his family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1861 after he was elected President.
Garrison Brown, who appeared on the TLC reality series Sister Wives along with his parents Kody and Janelle Brown, died of gunshot wound to the head, People reports. Per an autopsy report, the 25 ...
William Wells Brown (November 6, 1814 – November 6, 1884) was an American abolitionist, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery near Mount Sterling, Kentucky , Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 19.