The Adams Express Company unknowingly assisted this man in 1849. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this man who re-enacted his 27-hour long trip to Philadelphia’s Vigilance Committee in a panorama show where he emerged from a certain object.
ANSWER: Henry Box Brown
[10e] A metal replica of Henry Box Brown’s shipping crate is located in this city’s Canal Walk. This city’s Monument Avenue once displayed a statue of Jefferson Davis, who governed from this longest-serving capital of the Confederacy.
ANSWER: Richmond, Virginia
[10m] Late in life, Brown and his family performed as Jubilee Singers. The Fisk Jubilee Singers raised funds for a college named for a commissioner of this Reconstruction agency headed by Oliver O. Howard.
ANSWER: Freedmen’s Bureau [or Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands]
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