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    • Henry Box Brown

    American slave, later abolitionist speaker and showman

    Henry Box Brown

    The Narrative of Henry Box Brown ()

    Born

    Henry Brown


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    Louisa County, Virginia, US

    Died()June 15, (aged 81–82)

    Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Burial placeToronto Necropolis, Ontario, Canada
    Occupation(s)Abolitionist, public speaker, magician, mesmerist
    Spouse(s)First wife – Nancy (sold by slaveowner)
    Second wife – Jane Floyd

    Henry Box Brown (c.&#; – June 15, )[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 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    For a short time, Brown became a noted abolitionist speaker in the northeast United States. As a public figure and fugitive slave, Brown felt extremely endangered by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of , which increased the pressure to capture escaped slaves.

    He moved to England and lived there f