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N A R R A T I V E

OF

HENRY BOX BROWN,

WHO ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY
ENCLOSED IN A BOX 3 FEET LONG AND 2 WIDE.

WRITTEN FROM A

STATEMENT OF FACTS MADE BY HIMSELF.

WITH REMARKS UPON THE REMEDY FOR SLAVERY.

BY CHARLES STEARNS.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY BROWN & STEARNS.
FOR SALE BY BELA MARSH, 25 CORNHILL.

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ABNER FORBES, PRINTER,37 Cornhill.{v} 

PREFACE.

Not for the purpose of administering to a prurient desire to “hear andsee some new thing,” nor to gratify any inclination on the part of thehero of the following story to be honored by man, is this simple andtouching narrative of the perils of a seeker after the “boon ofliberty,” introduced to the public eye; but that the people of thiscountry may be made acquainted with the horrid sufferings endured by oneas, in a portable prison, shut out from the light of heaven, andnearly deprived of its balmy air, he pursued his fearful journeydirectly through the heart of a country making its boasts of liberty andfreedom to all, and that thereby a chord of human sympathy may betouched in the hearts of those who listen to his plaintive tale, whichmay be the means of furthering the spread of those principles, whichunder God, shall yet prove “mighty to the pulling down of thestrong-holds” of slavery.

O reader, as you peruse this heart-rending tale, let the tear ofsympathy roll freely from your eyes, and let the deep fountains of humanfeeling, which God has implanted in the breast of every son and daughterof Adam, burst forth from their enclosure, until a stream shall flowtherefrom on to the surrounding world, of so invigorating and purifyinga nature, as to arouse from the “death of the sin” of slavery, andcleanse from the pollutions thereof, all with whom you may be connected.As Henry Box Brown’s thrilling escape is portrayed before you, let{vi} itnot be perused by you as an idle tale, while you go away “forgettingwhat manner of persons you are;” but let truth find an avenue throughyour sensibilities, by which it can reach the citadel of your soul, andthere dwell in all its life-giving power, expelling the wholebrotherhood of pro-slavery errors, which politicians, priests, andselfish avarice, have introduced to the acquaintance of yourintellectual faculties. These faculties are oftener blinded byselfishness, than are imbecile of themselves, as the powerful intellectof a Webster is led captive to the inclinations of a not unselfishheart; so that that which should be the ruling power of every man’snature, is held in degrading submission to the inferior feelings of hisheart. If man is blinded to the appreciation of the good, by a mass ofselfish sensibilities, may he n

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