William "Box" Brown

Name

William "Box" Brown

First Name

William

Additional Names

nicknamed "Box" for his method of escaping from enslavement

Last Name

Brown

Born

1815

Died

15 June 1897

Note

By Henry Box Brown, Charles Stearns - http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/boxbrown/frontis.html, Public Domain,

Photo Source

Related Places

Virginia

British Canada

Eastern Pennsylvania

Associated Causes

Abolition

Underground Railroad URR