Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 In the Mail

In 1849 there be

Sent  one Henry Brown, a black slave,

As a package delivery

As the ways and means that would save

One human who was then sent forth

From slavery to new freedom.

He was mailed from the South to North

In a wooden crate to become,

In just over a one day span,

From south Richmond to north Philly,

A little cramped but a free man,

Package mailed out of slavery.

 Many went by underground rail,

But Henry chose to go by mail.