Henry's freedom box : a true story from the Underground Railroad

Author

Ellen Levine

Call Number

• JE COMPACT DISC LEVI (CEN, EAS)

Edition

CD w/Book.

Performers

Narrated by Jerry Dixon.

Publication Information

[Norwalk, CT] : Weston Woods Studios, c2009.

Physical Description

1 sound disc (ca. 32 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book ([40] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.)

Summary

A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

Notes

Compact disc.

Accompanying book published: New York : Scholastic Press, c2007.

Accompanying book illustrated by Kadir Nelson.

Contents

• Story with page-turn signals (10:47)
• Story without page-turn signals (10:35)
• Author's note (1:52)
• An interview with Ellen Levine (6:30)
• Jubilee in the morning (2:18).