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Know Your History: The Forgotten Tonsorial Legacy of Henry 'Box' Brown. | PostBourgie
As part of their commemoration of Black History Month, JJP spotlighted Henry “Box” Brown, a black slave who got his nickname after he literally mailed himself to freedom in 1849. But Brown’s cunning would be celebrated and commemorated by black Americans in a way most academics have been slow to recognize. As his crate was Read More