Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations for Archives Consulted ix
Introduction. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown, the Man Who Mailed Himself to Freedom 1
Chapter 1 Slavery and Freedom in US Visual Culture: The Performative Personae of William Wells Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth 11
Chapter 2 Becoming Box Brown, 1815-1857 58
Chapter 3 Performing Fugitivity: Henry Box Brown on the Nineteenth-Century British Stage, 1857 112
Chapter 4 Performing New Panoramas, Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Second Sight, England, 1857-1875 132
Chapter 5 Canada, the United States, and Beyond: Performing Slavery and Freedom, 1875-1897 183
Chapter 6 The Absent Presence: Henry Box Brown in Contemporary Museums, Memorials, and Visual Art 222
Chapter 7 Playing in the Archives: Box Brown in Contemporary Children's Literature and Visual Poetry 253
Coda. The Resilience of Box Brown and the Afterlives of Slavery 291
Appendix. Selected Contemporary Creative Works About Henry Box Brown 299
Notes 303
Index 339
Color plates follow page 182