Henry Box Brown the man who escaped in a box

Henry Brown was a African American man who was born into slavery but was sent to a tobacco farm in Richmond, Virginia were he got married to his wife Nancy and had 3 kids but they were sent to a plantation in North Carolina 
== Escape ==
free African American James C.A. smith, white shoemaker Samuel A. Smith (no relation), and the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, and other abolitionist gave him $86 USD or $2,801 USD today and advised him to ship himself to Philadelphia in a box, on March 29, 1849, brown spent 27 hours in a wooden box but was delivered to Philadelphia.
== after escape and death ==
he later wrote a book called Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself, moved to New England and read Anti-slavery lectures and met Fredrick Douglas who nicknamed him "Box" he later became a magician in the 1860s, married a woman named Jane and died in 1897 in Canada.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Box_Brown