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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: October 25, 2009
Caption: Reproduction of the 3' x 2½' x 2' box used by Henry Brown.
Additional Description: "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." Library of Congress
Submitted: October 30, 2009, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p82880
File Size: 0.912 Megabytes

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