Senin, 09 April 2018

Parcel post to freedom

Henry Brown took the extraordinary step of mailing himself to Philly. The baggage handlers ignored the “This Side Up With Care” label and rudely shoved the wooden box onto the steamship deck with those words exactly on the bottom. They would certainly have been surprised to learn that inside the crate was a man—Henry Brown, …

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