Brown, Henry ‘Box’
- Resource Type
- Reference Entry
Subject Reference
- Authors
- Source
- The Oxford Companion to Black British History, 1 ed., 2007.
- Subject
- British History
- Language
- English
(b. c.1815). Prominent 19th‐century African‐American abolitionist who escaped to England. Brown was born into slavery on a plantation in Richmond, Virginia. After having been forcibly separated from his wife and [...]