{"id":3958,"date":"2023-04-15T06:18:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T10:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2023-04-15T06:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T10:18:54","slug":"brown-henry-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/brown-henry-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown, Henry &#8220;Box&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Henry &#8220;Box&#8221; Brown\u00a0<\/strong>(ca. 1815-1897) was a Virginia freedom seeker who arranged to have himself mailed from Richmond, Virginia to the office of the Philadelphia vigilance committee in 1849. Brown later toured as an antislavery lecturer and magician.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/underground-railroad-historiography-crew\/\">Crew<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/regional-essays\/foner-on-middle-atlantic-region-foner\/\">Foner<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-abolitionist-underground-sinha\/\">Sinha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLES:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/abolitionist\/\">Abolitionist<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/freedom-seeker\/\">Freedom Seeker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry &#8220;Box&#8221; Brown\u00a0(ca. 1815-1897) was a Virginia freedom seeker who arranged to have himself mailed from Richmond, Virginia to the office of the Philadelphia vigilance committee in 1849. Brown later toured as an antislavery lecturer and magician. ESSAYS: Crew \/\/ Foner \/\/ Sinha ROLES: Abolitionist \/\/ Freedom Seeker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23509,23510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abolitionist","category-freedom-seeker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}