Henry's Freedom Box
A True Story from the Underground Railroad
by Ellen Levine
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appears in Civil War and Fiction.
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Awardwinning author and a Coretta Scott King Awardwinning 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 fam...
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appears in Civil War and Fiction.
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