Henry's Freedom Box, A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine. Henry is a young, slave boy whose master sells him to his son when he becomes ill. Life with the new master is not very good, but things look brighter when he meets a slave girl named Nancy. Even though they are from different masters, their masters agree they can marry. Life is great, until one day he finds out that his children and wife are sold to someone else. He is then left alone. One day he thinks of a plan to free himself. With the help of his friend James and a white man, who doesn't believe in slavery, Dr. Smith he is "mailed to freedom" to Philadelphia in a wooden box. After 27 hours of being in a box, he is a free man who became famous as Henry "Box" Brown in the 1800s.
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