Henry's Freedom Box - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Henry's Freedom Box write by Ellen Levine. This book was released on 2016-03-29. Henry's Freedom Box available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate, Henry finally has a birthday -- his first day of freedom.
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom write by Carole Boston Weatherford. This book was released on 2021-02-23. BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a moving, lyrical tale about the cost and fragility of freedom, a New York Times best-selling author and an acclaimed artist follow the life of a man who courageously shipped himself out of slavery. What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that, long before he came to be known as Box, he “entered the world a slave.” He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope — and help — came in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape! In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Brown’s story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom. Strikingly illustrated in rich hues and patterns by artist Michele Wood, Box is augmented with historical records and an introductory excerpt from Henry’s own writing as well as a time line, notes from the author, and a bibliography.
Freedom Song
Freedom Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom Song write by Sally M. Walker. This book was released on 2012. Freedom Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An award-winning author and illustrator join forces in an emotional retelling of Henry “Box” Brown's famed escape from slavery that is celebrated for its daring and originality.
Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself
Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself write by Henry Box Brown. This book was released on 1851. Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.
Almost to Freedom
Almost to Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Almost to Freedom write by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Almost to Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night Lindy and her mama run away in search of freedom, Sally goes too. This young girl's rag doll vividly narrates her enslaved family's courageous escape through the Underground Railroad. At once heart-wrenching and uplifting, this story about friendship and the strength of the human spirit will touch the lives of all readers long after the journey has ended.
