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Book Synopsis Henry B. Brown Letters by : Henry B. Brown
Download or read book Henry B. Brown Letters written by Henry B. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of thirteen letters written to his mother, most of which describe Brown's experiences in Calif. Includes an account of his 1851 steamship voyage to San Francisco via Panama aboard the Ohio, the Falcon, and the New Orleans; living and social conditions in San Francisco, particularly in the aftermath of the 1851 fire; and his travels to the interior of Calif., including Sacramento and the mining town Rough and Ready.
Book Synopsis Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself by : Henry Box Brown
Download or read book Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself written by Henry Box Brown and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.
Book Synopsis Henry Billings Brown Items by : Henry Billings Brown
Download or read book Henry Billings Brown Items written by Henry Billings Brown and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clipping glued to a slip of paper, describing Brown's career through 1875; and letter to an unidentified addressee, dated June 11, 1903, declining an invitation to write an article on government by injunction. The letter is on letterhead of the Supreme Court.
Book Synopsis Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself by : John Ernest
Download or read book Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself written by John Ernest and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, Brown not only tells the story of his famed escape, but also recounts his later life as a black man making his way through white American and British culture. Most important, he paints a revealing portrait of the reality of slavery, of the wife and children sold away from him, the home to which he could not return, and his rejection of the slaveholders' religion--painful episodes that fueled his desire for freedom. This edition comprises the most complete and faithful representation of Brown's life, fully annotated for the first time. John Ernest also provides an insightful introduction that places Brown's life in its historical setting and illuminates the challenges Brown faced in an often threatening world, both before and after his legendary escape.
Book Synopsis Henry Box Brown by : Kathleen Chater
Download or read book Henry Box Brown written by Kathleen Chater and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Box Brown is well known in America for escaping slavery by being packed in a box and mailed from Virginia to Philadelphia. The passing of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 made it unsafe for Brown to remain in America. He relocated to England where he had a very successful career, initially as a speaker on abolitionism before he began speaking on other subjects and then branched out into other forms of entertainment, including magic. He married Jane Floyd, who, with their children, appeared in his acts. This book concentrates on the relatively unknown period of his life in Britain, detailing both how he was received and how he developed as a performer. It is the biography of a brave, intelligent individualist who was always willing to learn and to take chances, becoming the first black man to achieve landmarks in British law and entertainment.
Book Synopsis The Unboxing of Henry Brown by : Jeffrey Ruggles
Download or read book The Unboxing of Henry Brown written by Jeffrey Ruggles and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE UNBOXING OF HENRY BROWN documents the amazing life of Henry Box Brown, whose daring escape from slavery sealed in a box has become a celebrated saga of the Underground Railroad. Based on more than a decade of research in the United States and England, Jeffrey Ruggles tells the dramatic but true story of Brown, an industrial slave in Virginia, an abolitionist activist in New England, and a performer for a quarter-century on the English stage." -- page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis A true narrative of cruel treatment: in a letter [signed: Henry Brown] to D--- B---n, Esq. [i.e. Dominick Brown.] by : Henry BROWN (Prisoner in the Marshalsea.)
Download or read book A true narrative of cruel treatment: in a letter [signed: Henry Brown] to D--- B---n, Esq. [i.e. Dominick Brown.] written by Henry BROWN (Prisoner in the Marshalsea.) and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by : Carole Boston Weatherford
Download or read book BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped himself out of slavery. What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. 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 form of the Underground Railroad. Escape! In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown’s story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom. Strikingly illustrated in rich hues and patterns by artist Michele Wood, Box is augmented with historical records and an introductory excerpt from Henry’s own writing as well as a time line, notes from the author, and a bibliography.
Book Synopsis The Pictorial History of the American Navy by : John Frost
Download or read book The Pictorial History of the American Navy written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown by : Martha Cutter
Download or read book The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown written by Martha Cutter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Box Brown,” as he came to be known after this astounding feat, went on to carve out a career as an abolitionist speaker, actor, magician, hypnotist, and even faith healer, traveling the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada until his death in 1897. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown is the first book to show how subversive performances were woven into Brown’s entire life, from his early days practicing magic in Virginia while enslaved, to his last shows in Canada and England in the 1890s. It recovers forgotten elements of Brown’s history to illustrate the ways he made himself a spectacle on abolitionist lecture circuits via outlandish performances, and then fell off these circuits and went on to reinvent himself again and again. Brown’s stunts included creating a moving panoramic picture show about his escape; parading through the streets dressed as a “Savage Indian” or “African Prince”; convincing hypnotized individuals that they were sheep who would gobble down raw cabbage; performing magic, dark séances, and ventriloquism; and even climbing back into his “original” box to jump out of it on stage. In this study, Martha J. Cutter analyzes contemporary resurrections of Brown’s persona by leading poets, writers, and visual artists. Both in Brown’s time and in ours, stories were created, invented, and embellished about Brown, continuing to recreate his intriguing, albeit fragmentary and elusive, story. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown fosters a new understanding not only of Brown’s life but of modern Black performance art that provocatively dramatizes the unfinished work of African American freedom.
Book Synopsis The Pictorial Book of the Commodores by : John Frost
Download or read book The Pictorial Book of the Commodores written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pictorial History of the United States of America by : John Frost
Download or read book The Pictorial History of the United States of America written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Copies of Accounts Settled with the First Comptroller for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1889 by :
Download or read book Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Copies of Accounts Settled with the First Comptroller for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1889 written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, Transmitting Copies of Accounts Rendered to and Settled with the First Comptroller for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1890 by :
Download or read book Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, Transmitting Copies of Accounts Rendered to and Settled with the First Comptroller for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1890 written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Henry B. Brown by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims
Download or read book Henry B. Brown written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Naval Biography by : John Frost
Download or read book American Naval Biography written by John Frost and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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