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Henry Box Brown - From Slavery to Show Business (Paperback)
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Henry Box Brown - From Slavery to Show Business (Paperback)
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Henry Box Brown is well-known in America for remarkably escaping
slavery by being nailed up in a box and posted from Virginia to
Philadelphia. The passing of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 made it
unsafe for Brown to remain in America so he relocated to England.
There, he had a very successful career, initially as a speaker on
abolitionism, before he began speaking on other subjects and then
branched out into other forms of entertainment including as a
magician. He married again to Jane Floyd, who, along with their
children, appeared in his acts. With his wife and surviving
children, he returned to America in 1875 finally moving to Canada,
where he died. This book tells his story, concentrating on the
relatively unknown period of his life in Britain, detailing both
how he was received and how he developed as a performer. It is the
biography of a brave, intelligent individualist who was always
willing to learn and to take chances, becoming the first black man
to achieve landmarks in British law and entertainment.
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