Narrative of Henry Box Brown

by Henry Box Brown and Charles Stearns

 

 

 

 

CONTENTS
Preface	v
Narrative	11
Cure for the Evil of Slavery	66

 

REPRESENTATION OF THE BOX

In which a fellow mortal travelled a long journey, in quest of those rights which the piety and republicanism of this country denied to him, the right to possess.

 

3 feet 1 inch long, 2 feet wide, 2 fect 6 inches high.

 

As long us the temples of humanity contain a single worshipper, whose heart beats in unison with that of the God of the universe; must a religion and a government which could inflict such misery upon a human being, be execrated and fled from, as a bright angel, abhors and flees from the touch of hideous sin.