Midday with Dan Rodricks 3-28-11 Hour 2 Henry Box Brown

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On March 29, 1849, a slave named Henry Brown asked two of his friends in Richmond Virginia to pack him into a wooden box and ship him by express mail to a free state. The man who become known as “Box Brown” and the remarkable story of his journey from slavery, through Baltimore, to freedom in Pennsylvania. With Dr. Joanne M. Martin, Co-Founder, President & CEO, of the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Hollis Robbins from the Department of Humanities at the Peabody Conservatory of JHU, and Ellen Levine, author of "Henry's Freedom Box”.