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Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

By Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrators Illustrated by Michele Wood Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Candlewick Imprint Candlewick ISBN

9780763691561

Awards and Honors 2021 Newbery Medal Honor Book

Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

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Social Issue: Slavery in Historical Context

Henry Brown was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next—as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope—and help—came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape!



In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown’s story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom.

Time line. Bibliography. Illustrator’s note. “A Note on Numbers and Language.” Full-color mixed media illustrations.
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