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The many resurrections of Henry Box Brown /
On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Box Brown," as he came to be known after this astounding feat, went on to carve out a career as an abolitionist speaker, act...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The many resurrections of Henry Box Brown, the man who mailed himself to freedom
- Slavery and freedom in US visual culture : the performative personae of William Wells Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth
- Becoming Box Brown, 1815-1857
- Performing fugitivity : Henry Box Brown on the nineteenth-century British stage, 1857
- Performing new panoramas, mesmerism, spiritualism, and second sight, England, 1857-1875
- Canada, the United States, and beyond : performing slavery and freedom, 1875-1897
- The absent presence : Henry Box Brown in contemporary museums, memorials, and visual art
- Playing in the archives : Box Brown in contemporary children's literature and visual poetry
- Coda. The resilience of Box Brown and the afterlives of slavery.