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The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia, a lithograph by Samuel Rowse published in 1850

Henry "Box" Brown was a 19th century Virginia slave who escaped to freedom by arranging to have himself mailed to Philadelphia abolitionists in a dry goods container.

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