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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: April 21, 2011
Caption: Henry Brown quotes inscribed on the display
Additional Description: In a wooden crate similar to this one, Henry Brown, A Richmond tobacco worker, made the journey from slavery to freedom in 1849. “The idea flashed across my mind of shutting myself up in a box, and getting myself conveyed… to a free state.” “I laid me down in my darkened home of three feet by two.” “Buoyed up by the prospect of freedom…I was willing to dare even death itself.” “My friends…managed to break open the box, and then came my resurrection from the grave of slavery.” “I rose a free man.”
Submitted: April 22, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p151115
File Size: 0.376 Megabytes

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