In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped Himself out of slavery.
Strikingly illustrated in rich hues and patterns by artist Michele Wood, Box is augmented with historical records and an introductory excerpt from Henry\'s own writing as well as a time line, notes from the author and illustrator, and a bibliography..
Escape In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown\'s story of how he came to send Himself in a box from slavery to freedom.
What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the form of the Underground Railroad.
Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South.
When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite.
He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property.
Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he entered the world a slave.
And bondage is suffocating me.
The breath of life is all I have to lose.
Neither my time nor my body is mine.
All, sold South.
I lost my beloved wife and our dear children.
What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me.
In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped Himself out of slavery
