Historian Tera Hunter discusses Henry “Box” Brown’s escape from slavery and his work as an abolitionist.
Key Concept 5: Enslaved people resisted the efforts of their enslavers to reduce them to commodities in both revolutionary and everyday ways.
A described and captioned version of this film is available to qualifying students, family members, educators and support professionals through the Described and Captioned Media Program (https://dcmp.org/).