Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself

…second version of Brown’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself, was published in England. Despite its title, Brown did not write the second Narrative himself, though it presents a fuller account of his life and contains details that only he could have provided. The…

One of those, Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1849), tells of the author’s incredible escape packed in a shipping crate. Another, Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (1863), tells the story of a slave…