Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown - Couverture rigide

Brown, Henry Box

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ISBN 10 : 0195148533 ISBN 13 : 9780195148534

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2002

Synopsis

In 1849, Henry Brown escaped from slavery by shipping himself in a crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. Over 27 hours and 350 miles later, he stepped out of his box to begin a new life. This is his memoir, originally published in England in 1851. The narrative paints a vivid portrait of life in slavery and describes one of the most audacious, creative escapes ever completed. With a keen sense of irony, Brown examines the "peculiar institution" from the hypocrisy of slave-owning Christian preachers, to the system of bribery that forced slaves to purchase rights to their own belongings, to the practice of separating slave families with no warning. Indeed, it was when his own wife and children were sold away that he became determined to escape and enlisted the help of a friend, who nailed him into a three-foot-by-two-foot wooden box. Travelling by railroad, car, steamboat and horse cart to the free state of Pennsylvania, Brown's unprecedented manner of arrival made him a public sensation in the North and a celebrity on the anti-slavery lecture circuit. His memoir conveys the unquenchable spirit of a hero who risked death rather than live as a slave.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Richard Newman is the Fellows and Research Officer at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard. He is the editor of Everybody Say Freedom: Everything You Need to Know About African-American History and Go Down, Moses: Celebrating the African-American Spiritual. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Chair of Afro-American Studies, and Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard. He is the author of several books, including The Signifying Monkey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195148533
• ISBN 13: 9780195148534
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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