The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown by Martha J. Cutter
Posted by Michael Birkner on Sep 18, 2023 in | Comments Off on The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown by Martha J. Cutter The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown by Martha J. Cutter University of Pennsylvania Press, 368 pp., hardcover $49.95 Brown’s ingenious escape from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, by mailing himself in a wooden postal crate to abolitionists in Philadelphia, was unique and well documented. But that is not the story that most interests the author of this elegant cultural history. Cutter focuses...read more