Box SlaveTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1534, Segment 2
Feb 15, 2021 • 11m
Fourteen years before Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, an enslaved man named Henry Brown made one of the most unusual escapes from slavery ever recorded. He mailed himself to freedom in a box. Martha Cutter, a professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, has researched Brown's life. (Originally aired Jan 22, 2020).
