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Henry Box Brown was born a slave in Louisa County, Virginia, in [[1815]]. He married a local slave but in 1849 his wife and children were sold to a plantation owner in North Carolina. Brown decided to escape and with the help of a sympathetic tobacconist, he arranged to be sent in a box to James McKim, an anti-slavery campaigner in Pennsylvania and a member of the [[Underground Railroad]]. The box was only three feet long and two feet wide. Brown survived the journey.

==Yes, you can==

As well as becoming a well-known speaker for the Anti-Slavery Society, he wrote his autobiography, ''Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown'' (1851).

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In 1997, Brown was the subject of a [[Tony Kushner]] play entitled ''Henry Box Brown or the Mirror of Slavery''.

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