Henry “Box” Brown shipped himself from a slave state to a free state in 1849. Undermain Theatre’s production of Box imagines an alternative ending to Brown’s life after his escape from slavery. Henry ...
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JuNene K, left, stars as Nancy, the first wife of Henry Brown, played by Bryan Pitts, in Undermain Theatre's production of Jarrett King's "Box." Brown escaped enslavement in Virginia by mailing ...