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Henry Brown is an American film, television and stage actor whose career began in the early 1970s. With over sixty credits, he has appeared in over thirty films and thirty television shows. He quite often plays policemen and law enforcement officials.
Henry Box Brown (c. 1815 – June 15, 1897) was an enslaved man from Virginia who escaped to freedom at the age of 33 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate in 1849 to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Apr 3, 2014 · Henry "Box" Brown was an enslaved man who shipped himself to freedom in a wooden box. He developed his published slave narrative into an anti-slavery stage show.
Jun 11, 2024 · Henry Box Brown was an American enslaved person who succeeded in escaping slavery by hiding in a packing crate that was shipped from the slave state of Virginia, where Brown had worked on a plantation and in a tobacco factory, to the free state of Pennsylvania.
Dec 28, 2019 · After his miraculous delivery to Philadelphia, the former Virginia slave reinvented himself as an actor, magician and hypnotist who mocked racist ideas and defied limits on 19th-century...
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Jun 12, 2018 · Henry “Box” Brown was a man that had everything torn from him. Born into slavery and separated from his family in a series of inhumane sales, Brown found himself utterly alone by his early 30s. But in a fateful vision, he saw his road to his salvation through a small box.
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(1815–97). Henry Brown was born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia. When he was an adult, he convinced an acquaintance to ship him to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he lived as a free man. He joined the abolitionist movement and later became a show business performer.
