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Lear Green: Escaped Slavery in an Old Wooden Sailor's Chest

Many people have heard of the story of Henry Box, but Lear Green also has an incredible escape story. Green was an enslaved young African-American woman who escaped from her slaveholder, James Noble, by hiding in an old wooden sailor's chest. The chest was delivered to Philadelphia after a long voyage. James Noble had 'inherited”' […]