BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

Author:Carole Boston Weatherford
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781536221664
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2021-02-22T23:00:00+00:00

the most extraordinary achievements I ever heard

of. He came to me on Saturday morning last in a

box tightly hooped, marked “this side up” by over-

land express, from the city of Richmond!! Did

you ever hear of any thing in your life to beat

that? . . . It was a regular old store box . . . grooved

at the joints and braced at the ends, leaving but

the very slightest crevice to admit the air. Nothing

saved him from suffocation but the free use of water

. . . and the constant fanning of himself with his

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