| LC control no. | n 2014029210 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- |
| Variant(s) | Brown, H. B. (Henry Box), 1815 or 1816- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | England |
| Birth date | [1815,1816] |
| Place of birth | Louisa County (Va.) |
| Profession or occupation | Abolitionists Orators Magicians Entertainers |
| Found in | Wilson, Wilmer, IV. Henry "Box" Brown: FOREVER, 2013: title page (Henry "Box" Brown) page 97 (19th century slave who escaped by mailing himself in a wooden crate to freedom in the North) Library of Virginia, May 22, 2014 (Henry Box Brown; Henry Brown (1815 or 1816-after February 26, 1889); born into slavery in Louisa County; abolitionist and performer) Chicago metro news (via America's historical newspapers), July 2, 1983: page 6 (b. near Richmond, in Louisa County, in the year 1815, later to be known as Henry Box Brown) Documenting the American South, May 22, 2014 (Henry Box Brown, b. 1816) Library of Congress PPOC, May 22, 2014 (related names: Brown, Henry Box, 1816-; subject: Brown, Henry "Box") LC in RLIN, 5/3/96 (hdg.: Brown, Henry Box, b. 1816; usage: Henry Box Brown) Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history, 1996 (Brown, Henry "Box"; abolitionist; escaped slavery by shipping himself to Philadelphia via Adams Express in Mar. 1849; removed to England in 1850; b. ca. 1815 at Richmond, Va.) MWA/NAIP files (usage: Henry Box Brown; H.B. Brown) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Brown, Henry "Box"; slave narrative author, fugitive slave, abolitionist; born c.1815 in a plantation in Louisa County, Virginia, United States; worked as a slave in tobacco factory in Richmond, Virginia; he have himself nailed into a wooden box and 'conveyed as dry goods' via the Adams Express Company from slavery in Richmond to freedom in Philadelphia, at the Anti-Slavery Committee's office; took the name "Box" to celebrate his new identity as well as his escape; began a career as an abolitionist speaker and entertainer; he was forced to leave the United States with the passage of a stronger fugitive slave law in 1850; skirting the threat of arrest in Providence, Rhode Island, he immediately left for England) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | nr 96017248 |
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