| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 39 min.)) : sound, color. |
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digital rda |
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video file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by Andy T. Jones. |
| Performer |
Voices: Dion Graham. |
| Summary |
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 next-as 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 hope-and help-came 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 Brown's story of how he came to send himself in a box from slavery to freedom. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- -- Juvenile films.
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Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Juvenile films.
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Slavery -- Virginia -- Juvenile films.
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African American abolitionists -- Juvenile films.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Andy T., film director.
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Graham, Dion, voice actor.
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hoopla digital.
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| Music No. |
MWT13242187 |
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