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          6. Henry Box Brown

          American slave, later abolitionist speaker and showman

          Henry Box Brown

          The Narrative of Henry Box Brown ()

          Born

          Henry Brown


          c.&#;

          Louisa County, Virginia, US

          Died()June 15, (aged 81–82)

          Toronto, Ontario, Canada

          Burial placeToronto Necropolis, Ontario, Canada
          Occupation(s)Abolitionist, public speaker, magician, mesmerist
          Spouse(s)First wife – Nancy (sold by slaveowner)
          Second wife – Jane Floyd

          Henry Box Brown (c.&#; – June 15, )[1] was an enslaved man from Virginia who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

          For a short time, Brown became a noted abolitionist speaker in the northeast United States. As a public figure and fugitive slave, Brown felt extremely endangered by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law of , which increased the pressure to capture escaped slaves.

          He moved to England and lived there f