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Brian Box Brown
When television sets first landed in American living rooms, regulators took steps to limit how much marketing was aimed at children. As a society, we understood television to be a…
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Box Brown, Pranas T. Naujokaitis
The bestest Rugrats comics collected in the first of two new volumes! Get ready for more adventures with Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica!
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Pakis Briggs
Embark on an enthralling odyssey through the captivating narrative of "Secrets of the Brown Box," a spellbinding masterpiece that transcends borders and invites you into the story of Boma, a…
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Alysha Griffiths
Mrs Brown has a wonderful box. A wonderful, magical, music box. What is inside? Nobody knows.
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Pierce Brown
Witness the war of the galaxy as a rebel fights for the freedom of his people, in this box set including the first three novels of the bestselling Red Rising…
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Bill Brown
This box set contains a wide variety of fingerstyle solo arrangements that are worthy of every performing guitarist's repertoire. In this set you will find The Eagles, Bee Gees, John…
Denis Bell
Denis Bell's collection of short fiction A Box of Dreams centers itself in the tradition of Spoon River Anthology (minus the tomb- stones) and Winesburg, Ohio. A Box of Dreams…
Box Brown
Stories of science fiction and mental exploration from Box Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of Andre the Giant: Life and Legend. Insightful character pieces with a range of topics. Each…
The first volume of Box Brown’s anthology series, Number! This includes two new stories, Kayfabe Quarterly, and The Documentarian. In Kayfabe Quarterly, a young fan’s run-in with legendary wrestler Diamond…
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One of the best and most promising new comic artists out there today, Box Brown writes and draws the Everything Dies zine series as a hard (and oft-times hilarious) look…
The second volume of Box Brown’s anthology series, Number! This includes two new stories, Sk8rh8r and Elroy Mirrors’ Big Score. In Sk8rh8r, 33-year-old Rose skateboards drunk to grab some delicious…
Andre Roussimoff is known as both the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal guy who’d been dealt an extraordinary hand in…
A dramatic and intriguing history of the most popular video game of all time
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In 1518, during his violent colonial campaign, Cortes introduces hemp farming to Mexico. In secret, locals begin cultivating the plant for consumption.
Cannabis makes its way to the United States…
From New York Times bestselling author Box Brown, a fascinating biography of shock comedian and amateur wrestler Andy Kaufman.
Tetris is as ubiquitous as blue jeans and as addictive as jelly beans. But did you ever wonder where it came from? Probably not: Most computer programs have fairly undramatic…
This Piano By Ear box contains fifteen hours of high quality music instruction teaching you some of the greatest songs of all time. These solos are mostly intermediate to early…
Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, and some Jeff Beck, CCR, and Christian Rock are all in this Guitar By Ear Box Set. This set has almost fourteen hours of high quality guitar…
Beatles, Beatles, Beatles and some Jeff Beck, CCR, and Christian Rock are all in this Guitar By Ear Box Set. This set has almost fourteen hours of high quality guitar…
In Child Star, bestselling author Box Brown creates a biography of Owen Eugene, a fictional 1980s child actor.
Henry Box Brown
On 29th March 1849, Henry Brown got into a box that was 3 feet long by 2 feet 8 inches deep by 2 feet wide and was posted to Philadelphia…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Richard Newman provides a 25-page introduction to a revised autobiography of Henry Box Brown, a fugitive slave who in 1849 devised his own escape to freedom by shipping himself in…
It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Title: Narrative of Henry Box Brown, who escaped from slavery enclosed in a box 3 feet long and 2 wide.Author: Henry Box BrownPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1851 Edition.
Henry Brown
Title: Narrative of Henry "Box" Brown
Description:
The "Narrative of Henry 'Box' Brown" is a poignant and remarkable account of one man's extraordinary journey from the shackles of slavery to…
Memoir of escape from slavery by someone who hid inside a crate shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia. Just as relevant now as it was 150 years ago. - Henry Louis…
Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to Philadelphia, a twenty-seven-hour journey to freedom. This work tells the story of his famed escape…
Martha Cutter
On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Box Brown, as he…
On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Box Brown," as he…
Sally M Walker
An award-winning author and illustrator join forces for a stirring and emotional retelling of Henry Box Brown’s famed escape from slavery–a feat he achieved by mailing himself to freedom. Full…
Kathleen Chater
Tells the story of Henry Box Brown, concentrating on the relatively unknown period of his life in Britain, detailing both how he was received and how he developed as a…
Peter Corris
‘She gazed at me with what I took to be adoration. I gave her a light kiss on the lips. Is it better the second time? she said’ Richard Browning…
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Narrative
Cure for the Evil of Slavery (by Charles Stearns)
Footnotes
Not for the purpose of administering to a prurient desire to hear and see some…
David Louis Marsh
It’s a bet, then, Rhiana said, Tell me how the killer did it or wash dishes for a month. Tanner and Jenny, age 13, nodded. Right, Rhiana said. It happened…
