Summary
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. Full description
Summary: |
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. |
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Physical Description: |
[40] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. |
Awards: |
A Junior Library Guild selection. |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (colophon). |
ISBN: |
043977733X (reinforced) 9780439777339 (reinforced) |
Author Notes: |
She wrote numerous books for children and young adults during her lifetime including Darkness Over Denmark, I Hate English, Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories, Rachel Carson: A Twentieth-Century Life, and Henry's Freedom Box. She died from lung cancer on May 26, 2012 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) |