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Henry “Box” Brown escaped slavery by shipping himself North in a crate. This image comes from an account published in William Still’s The Underground Railroad in 1871. It reminds me a bit of a magician’s act.
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Henry “Box” Brown escaped slavery by shipping himself North in a crate. This image comes from an account published in William Still’s The Underground Railroad in 1871. It reminds me a bit of a magician’s act.

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