Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom

Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Michele Wood.

Author/creator	Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.
Other author/creator	Wood, Michele illustrator.
Format	Book and Print
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020.
Copyright Notice	©2020
Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Subject(s)	Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816---Poetry --Juvenile literature. Fugitive slaves--United States --Biography --Juvenile literature. Slavery--Poetry --Juvenile literature. Underground Railroad--Poetry --Juvenile literature. African Americans--Juvenile literature. African American abolitionists--Juvenile literature.

Abstract	Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next - as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope - and help - came in the from of the Underground Railroad. Escape! The author, in poems, narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.
General note	A Junior Library Guild Selection
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
Interest grade level	Grades 4-12
Genre/form	Biographies.
Genre/form	Picture books.
Genre/form	Poetry.
Genre/form	Creative nonfiction.
ISBN	9780763691561
ISBN	0763691569