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Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom

Weatherford, Carole Boston 1956- (author.). Wood, Michele, (illustrator.).

Summary: 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 Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope - and help - came in the from of the Underground Railroad. Escape! The author, in poems, narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.

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  • ISBN: 9780763691561
  • ISBN: 0763691569
  • Physical Description: print
    54 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Junior Library Guild selection"--Dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Awards Note:
Newbery Honor, 2021

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