Monumenteer2014<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nHenry once again found a life in the theater, performing his \u201cMirror on Slavery\u201d show while also developing personas like the \u201cAfrican Chief,\u201d wearing extravagant jewelry and clothing while pretending to be descended from African royalty. It was as much about politics as it was about entertainment, magic, and spectacle, performing Houdini-like feats of escape. He brought the act back to the United States with him in 1875, touring the U.S. and Toronto, where he passed away\u00a0in 1897.<\/p>\n
What an unbelievably eventful and interesting life that Henry \u201cBox\u201d Brown lived. While his story certainly was not typical, it\u2019s great to see at least one story of slavery that ended triumphantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It goes without saying that slavery\u2014whether in the 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century Americas with Africans and Native Americans, or present-day human trafficking in places like India\u2014has always been, and will always be, an atrocity. Indeed, it marked\u00a0one of the darkest periods\u00a0of history in America\u00a0in particular, as countless human beings were treated like property with whom… Read More »This slave escaped in the 19th century by literally mailing himself to freedom<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakchaser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}