
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Cross Group, Oppression & Resilience
Settings: Northern America, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Ethnicity: Unspecified
Gender: Boy/Man
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American, White/European American/Caucasian
Cross Group Sub: Central, Direct, Negative, Positive
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary