Henry "Box" Brown: by Shawnte

from the book Many Thousand Gone by Virginia Hamilton

Henry Brown was a run away. His owner said Henry was stupid. But he was wrong. Because his owner thought Henry to be happily humble, slow to think and act, inferior in all ways. But his owner was stupider Because Henry proved he was wrong Because he was a run away but mailed himself from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The box was two feet eight inches deep, two feet wide, and three feet long it was designed by Henry himself. He was in the box for twenty-six hours