Henry "box" Brown

Henry "Box" Brown was born in 1815 in Louisa County, VA. While living on a plantation at the time of his enslavement, he married a fellow slave, as well as had a baby girl.  In 1849 the three of them were sold to a owner in NC.  While living in NC, he decided to make a daring escape for freedom.  His plan was to mail himself in a box with the help of a tobacconist.  He was put into a box and shipped to Philadelphia.  In Philadelphia a man named James McKim received a package containing Henry.  Was was deemed one of the most daring escapes in the Antebellum era.