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This history article, ‘Great Escapes: Henry ‘Box’ Brown – Slave Escape’ features the amazing tale of Henry Brown, a slave in America’s South, who sealed himself in a box and mailed the box to a free state in the north of America! It provides factual information about Henry Brown’s incredible escape, complete with a glossary of unfamiliar words and terms from the text and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.