Henry Brown copes with slavery by singing, but after his wife and children are sold away he is left with only his freedom song, which gives him strength when friends put him in a box and mail him to a free state.
year: 2012
call number/section: 1000
subjects: brown, henry box, b. 1816, juvenile fiction, fiction, slavery, juvenile fiction, african americans, singing, underground railroad, fiction, virginia, history, 1775-1865, juvenile fiction, fiction