Escaping Slavery in a Box
Henry "Box" Brown, an enslaved man in Richmond, Virginia, often prayed to God about escaping. Finally, according to his own narrative written much later, instructions came from up above to "go and get a box and put yourself in it." And Brown did just that. SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast LEARN MORE: https://www.historyshortspodcast.com/ READ THE NEWSLETTER: https://historyshorts.substack.com/
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