Box, Carole Boston Weatherford
Box, Carole Boston Weatherford
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Box
Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2020

Synopsis

What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me. Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box; he entered the world a slave. He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the nextas property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hopeand helpcame in the form of the Underground Railroad. Escape! In stanzas of six lines each, each line representing one side of a box, celebrated poet Carole Boston Weatherford powerfully narrates Henry Browns story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom.

About Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including Kin, illustrated by her son Jeffery and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient; Box, which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable, which won the Coretta Scott King Award, a Caldecott Honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; ALA Notable Children’s Book You Can Fly; and Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennie

This is the story of a slave's ingenious and desperate attempt to escape to freedom. After the heartbreaking separation from his family when they were sold off, Henry Brown decided he had nothing to lose. So he decided to mail himself to freedom in a shipping container. The writing is poetic, raw wi......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

Incredible story!......more

Goodreads review by Alicia

I was distracted rather than interested in the illustrations. Similarly, the storytelling in verse was okay, not the greatest. It’s the story and Brown’s perilous journey that is the true story in its significance. His will to be free even when the deck was stacked against him- horrible slaveholders......more

Goodreads review by Panda

This is a powerful retelling of the story of Henry Brown, who traveled to freedom inside a box. This was one of my favorite Underground Railroad stories when I was a child, because it was so concrete, vivid, and yet unimaginable. I spent a lot of time thinking about how hard it would be to survive,......more

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