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Narrative of Henry Box Brown

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Narrative of Henry Box Brown (1849)
Henry Box Brown and Charles Stearns
Narrative of Henry Box Brown
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Contents

CONTENTS
Preface v
Narrative 11
Cure for the Evil of Slavery 66

The Box

REPRESENTATION OF THE BOX

In which a fellow mortal travelled a long journey, in quest of those rights which the piety and republicanism of this country denied to him, the right to possess.

3 feet 1 inch long, 2 feet wide, 2 fect 6 inches high.

As long us the temples of humanity contain a single worshipper, whose heart beats in unison with that of the God of the universe; must a religion and a government which could inflict such misery upon a human being, be execrated and fled from, as a bright angel, abhors and flees from the touch of hideous sin.