Henry Box Brown
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 127 years ago |
| Born | Louisa County |
| Virginia | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | June 15,1897 |
| Died | Toronto |
| Canada | |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Nancy Brown |
| Date of birth | January 1,1816 |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 657608 |
Henry Box Brown Life story
Henry Box Brown was a 19th-century Virginia slave 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. For a short time, Brown became a noted abolitionist speaker in the northeast United States.
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