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Henry Box Brown Song
Credit: Library of Congress American Memory
Original Author: Laing's Steam Press
Created: ca. June 1849
Medium: Broadside with woodcut

Henry Box Brown Song

Printed on this broadside are the lyrics of a song Henry Brown supposedly sang after having had himself shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia in March 1849.

This sheet is part of the Printed Ephemera Collection at the Library of Congress.

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