The Journey of Henry Box Brown
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The Journey of Henry Box Brown
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The work The Journey of Henry Box Brown represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
- Label
- The Journey of Henry Box Brown
- Statement of responsibility
- written by Karyn Parsons ; illustrated by Mark Page
- Subject
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- African American abolitionists
- African American abolitionists -- Juvenile drama
- Animated films
- Animated films
- Biographical films
- Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-
- Brown, Henry Box, 1816- -- Drama
- Brown, Henry Box, 1816- -- Juvenile drama
- Children's films
- Children's films
- Drama
- Fugitive slaves
- Fugitive slaves -- Drama
- Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Juvenile drama
- Juvenile works
- Slavery
- Slavery -- Drama
- Slavery -- Virginia -- Juvenile drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Virginia
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ". . . takes a magical look at the historic true tale of slave Henry Box Brown, a man who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1848 ... With the help of characters including Bird, Horse, Cricket and Cat, Henry avoids being discovered and makes his way to freedom. While on his dangerous and exciting journey, Henry shares what freedom means to him and why slavery is wrong."--Container
- Cataloging source
- DWP
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Written by Karyn Parsons ; illustrated by Mark Page ; music and sound, Coati Mundi ; produced by Karyn Parsons, Darcine Wdowczak Thomas, and Roderick Alleyne
- Dewey number
- 791.43/72
- Language note
- Closed-captioned in English
- PerformerNote
- Narrated by Alfre Woodard
- Runtime
- 28
- Target audience
- juvenile
- Technique
- animation
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