Talk:Henry Box Brown

Name
Surely he was born Henry Brown and became known as Henry Box Brown after the famous incident, right? Or did he already have that last name? Did it inspire him?! :) Clarification would be appreciated. jengod 23:37, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * touché. Will do. Vaoverland 00:34, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * indeed he got the name "box" after his escape... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:1205:500B:8830:21F:F3FF:FEBE:2C7B (talk) 13:26, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
 * mama Mia 92.207.234.170 (talk) 11:17, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

August 2006
Slaves were property, not Americans. Superslum 12:33, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

March 2007
i looked on all the sources, and i see stuff like "nothing was found after 1864" but in the article it sayys stuff. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Powerdildo (talk • contribs) 23:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Biography assessment rating comment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- KenWalker | Talk 04:02, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Blanked page?!
Someone decided they needed to wipe almost all of the page save for four links. I've reverted this action, but if anyone can provide good evidence that such an act was not vandalism, please step forward. --64.5.15.136 (talk) 23:25, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

HENRY'S FREEDOM BOX A True Story from the Underground railroad
Hentry Brown wasn't sure how old he was.Hentry was a slave.And slaves weren't allow to know their birtherdays.Hentry and his brothers and sisters worked inthe big house where the master live.Henry and his family.bUT Henty's mother know things could change.Do you see those leaves blowing in the wind?They are torn from the trees like slave children are torn from there families.One morning the master calling for Henry and his mother.They climbed the —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.83.167.206 (talk) 23:32, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That passage is the opening of the Ellen Levine book on Henry Box Brown from 2007. I am not sure what it is doing here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.90.166.36 (talk) 15:20, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

"Breakthrough in Research" Section
I think the whole "Breakthrough in Research" section should be deleted. It doesn't make sense, and it doesn't contain any actual information. Khris.soden (talk) 16:59, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Inconsistency regarding his escape
In the section Escape, it states that he was boxed up on March 23rd, and was delivered after 27 hours. However, it says the package was signed for on March 30th, which suggests he was in the box for much longer than 27 hours. Am I misreading something here? Some quick Googling suggests that he was only in the box for 27 hours and not 7 days. Saltmiser (talk) 10:23, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 17 March 2019
Paragraph starting: "During the trip, which began on March 29, 1849,[6]" change date to Friday March 23, 1849 and quote in footnote Ruggles, 2003, page 32.

Paragraph starting: "The box was received by Williamson, McKim, William Still, and other members of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee on March 30, 1849" change date to Saturday, March 24 and quote Ruggles, 2003, page 35.

If you want to keep the end of the sentence "attesting to the improvements in express delivery services" you could still quote Robbins there (as her article is all about the Express system) but she was mistaken in the dates and did not use a source for them while Ruggles uses many primary sources. Lpoelm (talk) 20:16, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 17 March 2019
Introductory paragraph, sentence "This was Brown's second wife; his first wife, Nancy, had been sold by their master."

Change "by their master" to "by her master, along with the children she had with Henry Brown."

(They were owned by different masters, as explained further down under "Escape") Lpoelm (talk) 22:37, 17 March 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅. Thanks for reporting, !-- SkyGazer 512 My talk page 13:36, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Pending revision and sources problem
There is a pending revision with the following reference:. This is a tricky source, as one must have York University Canada access to see the source.Dogru144 (talk) 17:19, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

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