Henry's Freedom Box
A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Ranked #6 in Social Studies, Ranked #11 in Multiculturalism — see more rankings.
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning 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 family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail... more
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 family and put to work in a warehouse. Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he knows exactly what he must do: He will mail... more
Rankings by Category
Henry's Freedom Box is ranked in the following categories:
- #86 in 1st Grade
- #84 in 3rd Grade
- #70 in 6-Year-Old
- #61 in 8-Year-Old
- #79 in African American
- #49 in African American History
- #73 in Courage
- #66 in Morals
- #37 in Multicultural
- #80 in Resilience
- #21 in Slavery
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