A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane
Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.
Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves'
birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther
away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse.
Henry grows up and marries, but he is again devastated when his family is sold
at the slave market. Then one day, as he lifts a crate at the warehouse, he
knows exactly what he must