BOX
Subtitle: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
By: Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Michele Wood
Publisher: Candlewick
Published: Apr 14, 2020
Place of publication: Somerville, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780763691561
Copyright date: 2020
Description: Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next - as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope - and help - came in the from of the Underground Railroad. Escape! The author, in poems, narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.
Notes: Newbery Honor, 2021
A Junior Library Guild Selection