Person · 1815–1897
Henry "Box" Brown
The self-liberator who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden crate in 1849.
An icon of self-emancipation and the [[slave-narratives]].
After his wife and children were sold away, Henry Brown had himself sealed in a small box and shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia abolitionists — surviving 27 hours upside down. He became a celebrated abolitionist showman.