The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown / / Martha Cutter.
On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Box Brown,” as he came to be known after this astounding feat, went on to carve out a career as an abolitionist speaker, actor, magici...
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Cutter, Martha, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown / Martha Cutter. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (368 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Archives Consulted -- Introduction. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown, the Man Who Mailed Himself to Freedom -- Chapter 1. Slavery and Freedom in US Visual Culture -- Chapter 2. Becoming Box Brown, 1815–1857 -- Chapter 3. Performing Fugitivity -- Chapter 4. Performing New Panoramas, Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Second Sight, England, 1857–1875 -- Chapter 5. Canada, the United States, and Beyond -- Chapter 6. The Absent Presence -- Chapter 7. Playing in the Archives -- Coda. The Resilience of Box Brown and the Afterlives of Slavery -- Appendix. Selected Contemporary Creative Works About Henry Box Brown -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Box Brown,” as he came to be known after this astounding feat, went on to carve out a career as an abolitionist speaker, actor, magician, hypnotist, and even faith healer, traveling the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada until his death in 1897.The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown is the first book to show how subversive performances were woven into Brown’s entire life, from his early days practicing magic in Virginia while enslaved, to his last shows in Canada and England in the 1890s. It recovers forgotten elements of Brown’s history to illustrate the ways he made himself a spectacle on abolitionist lecture circuits via outlandish performances, and then fell off these circuits and went on to reinvent himself again and again. Brown’s stunts included creating a moving panoramic picture show about his escape; parading through the streets dressed as a “Savage Indian” or “African Prince”; convincing hypnotized individuals that they were sheep who would gobble down raw cabbage; performing magic, dark séances, and ventriloquism; and even climbing back into his “original” box to jump out of it on stage.In this study, Martha J. Cutter analyzes contemporary resurrections of Brown’s persona by leading poets, writers, and visual artists. Both in Brown’s time and in ours, stories were created, invented, and embellished about Brown, continuing to recreate his intriguing, albeit fragmentary and elusive, story. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown fosters a new understanding not only of Brown’s life but of modern Black performance art that provocatively dramatizes the unfinished work of African American freedom. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Arts-History of Art. Interdisciplinary-African American Studies. Lit Crit-American Literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. bisacsh Frederick Douglass. Sojourner Truth. William Ellen Craft. respectability politics. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2022 English 9783110994551 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2022 9783110994520 ZDB-23-DSL Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110767674 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812298642?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812298642 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812298642/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Archives Consulted -- Introduction. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown, the Man Who Mailed Himself to Freedom -- Chapter 1. Slavery and Freedom in US Visual Culture -- Chapter 2. Becoming Box Brown, 1815–1857 -- Chapter 3. Performing Fugitivity -- Chapter 4. Performing New Panoramas, Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Second Sight, England, 1857–1875 -- Chapter 5. Canada, the United States, and Beyond -- Chapter 6. The Absent Presence -- Chapter 7. Playing in the Archives -- Coda. The Resilience of Box Brown and the Afterlives of Slavery -- Appendix. Selected Contemporary Creative Works About Henry Box Brown -- Notes -- Index |
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