Book
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
- Published
- 2020
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 56
- Words
- 2897
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 5.3
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–17
In a series of six-line poems, Carole Boston Weatherford recounts the life of Henry 'Box' Brown, whose wife and children were sold away from him and who escaped slavery by having himself shipped in a wooden crate from Virginia to freedom in Philadelphia.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780763691561
- ISBN-10
- 0763691569
Tags
ALSC NotablesBiographyHistory-SlaveryNonfictionPeople-Enslaved PeoplePoetryUnited States-PennsylvaniaUnited States-Virginia