The storyline of the film, BLACK BOX, is "simultaneously daring, elegant and simple, and doesn't shy away from its potential humor.
Brown is a charming, sharp-witted go-getter with a taste for pleasure--a figure squarely in the long line of sly tricksters in African-American folklore--but he's also a proud, independent-minded man who has a keen eye for the hypocrisies of slave-state religiosity and a fierce love for his wife and children.
It's an unbeatable combination of a complex character and a suspenseful story."
-Independent Weekly
The amazing true story of Henry "Box" Brown
A Southern slave that mailed himself to freedom
© 2012 One Noble Journey. All Rights Reserved.
Rob Underhill
D irector/Producer
Aravind Ragupathi
DP/Producer
Mike Wiley
Actor/Producer
Henry “Box” Brown was an African American born into slavery in 1816 in Louisa County, Virginia. Although he was not subjected to physical violence, Henry’s story demonstrates the cruelty of slavery was every bit as devastating to the heart as it could be on the body.
At the death of his first master, Henry’s family was torn apart and parceled out to various beneficiaries of the estate.
Eventually Henry married and had children, only to have his wife and children sold to a new owner and never seen again.
This devastating incident was Brown’s breaking point. He devised an ingenious escape plan - sealing himself in a wooden box for shipment to friends and freedom in Philadelphia. Eventually, he traveled the northern states telling his tale of liberation to abolitionist groups.
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