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Henry Box Brown: A Musical Journey
June 17, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
$40
A MAN ESCAPED SLAVERY BY MAILING HIMSELF TO FREEDOM.
HIS STORY MADE ITS WAY TO PENSACOLA..
“We believe theater is itself an empathy-building tool of all of us looking into the lives that we’ve never lived,” Mansuri said. “Looking through that small window into another person’s life and maybe having a new view about it.” She had trouble finding a story where Black and white people came together to make sacrifices for one another. That is until she came across a book about Henry “Box” Brown, a 19th-century slave who escaped to freedom by mailing himself in a wooden crate from Virginia to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 2008, Mansuri and the Children’s Theater Company put pen to paper and created “Henry Box Brown: A Musical Journey.” Now, the show will be presented at 1 and 7 p.m. June 17 and 18 at the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio at Pensacola State College. The play is sponsored by the Equity Project Alliance, a collective of Escambia County citizens working to create a more equitable and diverse community.
