Mike Wiley: One Noble Journey - A Box Marked Freedom

One Noble Journey: A Box Marked Freedom tells the true story about Henry “Box” Brown, an African American who was born a slave in 1816 in Louisa County, Virginia. At the age of thirty-three, he was bequeathed to his master’s son, who sent him to work in his tobacco factory in Richmond. When Brown witnessed his wife and children taken from him and sold to another state, he reached his breaking point and devised an escape plan that would have him sealed in a small wooden box and shipped to friends and to freedom in Philadelphia.