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Cover of Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine

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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

written by Ellen Levine, illustrated by Kadir Nelson

39 pages · 2007

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About the book

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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