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.

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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