Levine Ellen - Henry's Freedom Box - HardcoverBinding: Hardcover Description: 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
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Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 himself to the North. After an arduous journey in the crate Henry finally has a birthday - - his first day of freedom.
Title: Henry's Freedom Box
Author(s): Levine Ellen
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Barcode: 9780439777339
Pages: 40 Pages, Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/1/2007
Category: True Stories (Children's / Teenage)