On March 24, 1849, four men in the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society opened a wooden crate. Out staggered Henry Brown. Brown, who had spent more than a day in the box after 33 years in slavery, sang a ...

Henry “Box” Brown was a 19th century Virginia slave who made a harrowing journey in a wooden crate, mailing himself to abolitionists in Philadelphia. His inspiring, true story is told in the Caldecott ...

For a Black History Month observance recently, East Aiken School of the Arts students focused on “Henry's Freedom Box,” the story of an actual slave in the 1840s written by Ellen Levine. Narrated by ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Ellen Levine, a prolific and highly regarded author and activist whose children’s books told stories of slaves, immigrants and the fight for social justice, has died. She was 73.

In a loose, poetic narrative tracing the life of Henry Brown, a Virginia slave who mailed himself to freedom, Walker (Blizzard of Glass) underscores what song meant to Henry. Working in the cotton ...