![]() ![]() One of the men who welcomed Brown as he struggled out of the crate was a young Black office clerk named William Still. The half-day voyage turned into a 27-hour journey, but Brown arrived safely, cramped but alive. Against the advice of a white shopkeeper who agreed to help him, Brown decided on a far-fetched plan to pack himself inside a shipping crate and mail himself to the offices of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society at 107 North 5th Street in Philadelphia. After watching slave traders carry away his wife and children, he vowed to escape to the North and raise enough money to buy his family’s freedom.īut how to do it? Escaping slavery was always dangerous, especially when fleeing from a city as far south as Richmond. SOMETIME IN the fall of 1848, Henry Brown, an enslaved person living in Richmond, Virginia, made a decision. ![]()
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