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A somewhat comic yet sympathetic portrayal of the culminating episode in the flight of slave Henry Brown 'who escaped from Richmond Va. in a Box 3 feet long,2-1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft. wide. ' In the office of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, the young Brown emerges from a crate as several figures, including Frederick Douglass (holding a claw hammer at left) look on. 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.
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A somewhat comic yet sympathetic portrayal of the culminating episode in the flight of slave Henry Brown 'who escaped from Richmond Va. in a Box 3 feet long,2-1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft. wide. ' In the office of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, the young Brown emerges from a crate as several figures, including Frederick Douglass (holding a claw hammer at left) look on. 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.
Caption:
The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, who escaped from Richmond Va. in a bx 3 feet long 2 1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft wide ca. 1850.
Credit:
Album / HUM Images/Universal Images Group
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5688 x 3994 px | 65.0 MB
Print size:
48.2 x 33.8 cm | 19.0 x 13.3 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1800S DRAWING • 1800S ILLUSTRATION • 1800S PRINT • 1800S PRINTS • 1850S ESCAPED SLAVES • 19TH CENTURY DRAWINGS • 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATION • 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATIONS • 19TH CENTURY PRINT • 19TH CENTURY PRINTS • ARCHIVAL DRAWING • ARCHIVAL ILLUSTRATION • ARCHIVAL PRINT • ARCHIVAL PRINTS • ARCHIVAL • ARCHIVE • ARCHIVES • DESIGNING • DRAWING • DRAWINGS • DRAWN • ESCAPED SLAVE • HENRY BOX BROWN • HISTORIA UNIVERSAL • HISTORIA • HISTORICAL DRAWING • HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATION • HISTORICAL PRINT • HISTORICAL PRINTS • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HISTORY. • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • SLAVERY ESCAPE • VINTAGE PRINT • VINTAGE PRINTS • VINTAGE
