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The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from Richmond Va. in a bx 3 feet long 2 1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft wide
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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| Description | A somewhat comic yet sympathetic portrayal of the culminating episode in the flight of slave Henry Brown "who escaped from Richmond Va. in a Box 3 feet long, 2-1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft. wide." In the office of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, the young Brown emerges from a crate as several figures, including Frederick Douglass (holding a claw hammer at left) look on. Details of Brown's escape, whereby he had himself shipped via Adams Express from Richmond to Philadelphia, were widely publicized in a narrative of his ordeal published under his own name in 1849. The box itself became an abolitionist metaphor for the inhumanity and spiritual suffocation of slavery. It is shown on an undated broadside published in Boston (Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Broadside Collection, portfolio 65, no. 16). |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Popular Graphic Arts Cartoon Prints, American |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | . |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Douglass, Frederick. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Abolitionism and abolitionists. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Slaves and slavery. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Philadelphia. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | African Americans (portrayed). |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Richmond, Va. |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
