Bibliograph

Box, Henry Brown mails himself to freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Michele Wood

Type

Label

Box, Henry Brown mails himself to freedom, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Michele Wood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Box

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1109440767

Responsibility statement

Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Michele Wood

Sub title

Henry Brown mails himself to freedom

Summary

Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known 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

Target audience

juvenile

Contributor