Re-Producing the Meaning of the Geography of Enslavement: Henry Box Brown's Subversive Geographical Resistance.
This article applies insight from the field of Black geography to the performance work of Henry Box Brown, a man who in 1849 mailed himself in a large postal crate from slavery in Richmond, Virginia to freedom in Philadelphia, PA. As a mobile subject, Brown had a unique purchase on how space and pla...
| Publicado en: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 806 - 826 |
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