Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807858900 ISBN 13: 9780807858905

Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 2008

Synopsis

This is a new edition of a classic slave narrative, now fully annotated.It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. In ""Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown"", written by Himself, Brown not only tells the story of his famed escape, but also recounts his later life as a black man making his way through white American and British culture. Most important, he paints a revealing portrait of the reality of slavery, the wife and children sold away from him, the home to which he could not return, and his rejection of the slaveholders' religion - painful episodes that fueled his desire for freedom.This edition comprises the most complete and faithful representation of Brown's life, fully annotated for the first time. John Ernest also provides an insightful introduction that places Brown's life in its historical setting and illuminates the challenges Brown faced, both before and after his legendary escape.

About this title

About the Author

JOHN ERNEST is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. He is author of Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature and Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 (from the University of North Carolina Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807858900
• ISBN 13: 9780807858905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Ernest John