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Box Henry Brown mails himself to freedom

Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his f...

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Main Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Wood, Michele (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Prss, 2020.
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Brown, Henry Box, > 1815 or 1816- > Poetry > Juvenile nonfiction.
Slavery > Poetry > Juvenile nonfiction.
Underground Railroad > Poetry > Juvenile nonfiction.
Biographies > Juvenile.
Picture books.
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Summary:Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the from of the Underground Railroad. Escape! Celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.
Item Description:A Junior Library Guild Selection
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
ISBN:0763691569
9780763691561
Author Notes:Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author and poet, was named the 2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner. She was also named the 2019 Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Her numerous books for children include the Newbery Honor Book Box: Henry Box Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood; the Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre , illustrated by Floyd Cooper; the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement , illustrated by Ekua Holmes; and the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library and Outspoken: Paul Robeson , Ahead of His Time , both illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in Maryland.

Michele Wood is an illustrator, painter, filmmaker, and designer with a master's in divinity from Christian Theological Seminary. She has won numerous awards for her illustration work, including a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, as well as a nomination for an NAACP Image Award. Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom is her first book with Candlewick Press. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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