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100 1 $aWeatherford, Carole Boston,$d1956-
245 10$aBox :$bHenry Brown mails himself to freedom /$cCarole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Michele Wood.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aSomerville, Mass. :$bCandlewick Press,$c2020.
300 $a[56] p. :$bcol. ill. ;$c24 x 28 cm.
500 $aA Junior Library Guild Selection.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aHenry 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! Celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown's story of how he came to ship himself in a box from slavery to freedom.
521 1 $a10-15.
600 10$aBrown, Henry Box,$d1815 or 1816-$vPoetry$vJuvenile literature.
650 0$aSlavery$vPoetry$vJuvenile literature.
650 0$aUnderground Railroad$vPoetry$vJuvenile literature.
700 1 $aWood, Michele.