Henry "Box" Brown Memorial (Richmond, Virginia)]]> Abolitionists--United States
Antislavery movements--United States
Mid-Atlantic United States
Public art
Public sculpture
Slavery--Emancipation

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Brown, Henry "Box," 1816-1897

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Commemorative sculpture]]>
The memorial includes a bronze crate meant to resemble the wooden one that Brown used. The crate is open and an outline of a crouching human figure is inscribed on the back panel of the box. An informational placard is sited near the sculpture, which details the history of slavery in Richmond and Brown's escape.]]>
Henry "Box" Brown]]> Inscriptions on five sides of box:
"Buoyed by the prospect of Freedom...I was willing to dare even death itself."

"The idea flashed across my mind of shutting myself up in a box, and getting myself conveyed... to a free state."

"I laid me down in my darkened home of three feet by two feet."

"My friends...managed to break open the box, and then came my resurrection from the grave of slavery"

"I arose a free man"

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An inscription on the stone base:
"In a wooden crate similar to this one, Henry Brown, a Richmond tobacco worker, made the journey from slavery to freedom in 1849"]]>
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