TY  - BOOK
N2  - Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know 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.
AB  - Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know 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.
T1  - Box :Henry Brown mails himself to freedom /
AU  - Weatherford, Carole Boston,
AU  - Wood, Michele,
ET  - First edition.
CN  - E450
CN  - E450
N1  - A Junior Library Guild Selection
ID  - 959700
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Underground Railroad
KW  - Fugitive slaves.
KW  - African Americans.
KW  - African American abolitionists.
KW  - Slavery.
SN  - 9780763691561
SN  - 0763691569
TI  - Box :Henry Brown mails himself to freedom /
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ER  -