Narrative of Henry Box Brown: who escaped from slavery enclosed in a box...

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"Narrative of Henry Box Brown: who escaped from slavery enclosed in a box three feet long and two wide and two and a half high"

I was listening to a radio piece on this. It's a slave narrative, giving his whole life experience, not just the escape. But his escape was pretty crazy, being shut up in a dry-goods box and shipped by express to Pennsylvania - sometimes being put on his head!

https://archive.org/details/narrativeofhenry00brow/mode/2up

The whole thing is about 50,000 words, or around 5 hours of finished recording.
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