Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself

Henry "Box" Brown (1816–after 1889) was a 19th-century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom at age 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania abolitionists. He left behind his enslaved wife and children.
This book published in 1851 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.