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The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown by Martha Cutter; Martha Cutter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown about?
On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Martha J. Cutter shows how subversive performances were woven into Brown’s entire life and analyzes contemporary resurrections of Brown’s persona. On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Box Brown,” as he came to be known after this astounding feat, went on to carve out a career as an abolitionist speaker, actor, magician, hypnotist, and even faith healer, traveling the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada until his death in 1897. __The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown__ is the first book to show how subversive performances were woven into Brown’s entire life, from his early days practicing magic in Virginia while enslaved, to his last shows in Canada and England in the 1890s. It recovers forgotten elements of Brown’s history to illustrate the ways he made himself a spectacle on abolitionist lecture circuits via outlandish performances, and then fell off these circuits and went on t
Who reads The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martha Cutter; Martha Cutter
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812298642
- Category
- nonfiction