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Henry Box Brown (l. c. 1815-1897) was an enslaved African American who became famous as "the man who mailed himself to freedom" after he had himself shipped in a box from Richmond, Virginia, to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

The Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851) is the autobiography of Henry Box Brown (l. c. 1815-1897), who became the most famous fugitive slave of his time when he had himself shipped in a box from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia...

The Albigensian Crusade (aka Cathars' Crusade, 1209-1229 CE), was the first crusade to specifically target heretic Christians - the Cathars of southern France. Not successful in repressing the heresy, the on-off campaigns over two decades...

In this interview, World History Encyclopedia is joined by American author Nancy Marie Brown, who is talking to us about her new book The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women. You can find the entire interview on our...

A 19th century CE illustration of Raymond IV of Toulouse (c. 1041-1105 CE), one of the principal leaders of the First Crusade (1095-1202 CE). (Palace of Versailles, Paris)

The Battle of Lundy's Lane (25 July 1814) was one of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812. Fought near the location of present-day Niagara Falls, it saw a US army under Jacob Brown clash with a British force under Gordon Drummond. Although...

The Battle of Marj Ayyun (10 June 1179, also given as the Battle on the Litani) was a military engagement between Baldwin IV, King of Jerusalem (r. 1174-1185) and Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1174-1193). Saladin decisively won the...

US Major General Jacob Brown (1775-1828), engraving Asher Brown Durand after a painting by John Wesley Jarvis. New York Public Library.

"Resurrection of Henry Box Brown," published with an account of the story in The Underground Railroad by Wiliam Still, 1872.

Henry Box Brown, the former slave who had himself mailed from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to escape slavery on 29 March 1849. Image by Charles Stearns, frontspiece to the 1849 edition of Narrative of the Life of Henry...