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Fari (Phaorah) Taharqa was King of Kemet (Egypt) from 690 BCE to 664 BCE.  Taharqa is the same "Tirhakah King of Ethiopia" in the bible (Isaiah 37:9 and 2 Kings19:9) that drove off the Assyrians from Israel, at the time a state in Northern Africa, defeating King Sennacharib, and according to Henry T. Aubin "shaped the Western world."  In 690 BCE Fari Taharqa is quoted as saying upon his crowning "I have received the Crown in Memphis after the Falcon flew to heaven." 

Info can be found online Wikipedia.

The ressurection of Henry "box" Brown at Philadelphia by Samuel Rowse-1850

Henry "box" Brown was born in Louisa County, VA around 1815, enslaved. In 1848 his wife and children were sold to a slaver in North Carolina.  Henry was powerless to do anything about it.  In 1848 in pain, he devised a plan to escape to freedom.  With the help of a freed man James C.A. Smith, and a white store Samuel Smith, owner Henry decided to mail himself as a box of dry goods to a free state.   Brown paid $86 of the $166 he had saved (slaves did get paid) to be shipped to Philadelphia, PA.  On March 23, 1849 Brown began the trip, arriving at the home of abolitionist James Miller Kim 26 hours later a free man.

Comments

[Alisha9]

Think I'm going to read them in the A.M. and offer a prize if they answer a question about it correctly in the P.M. I will let you know the impact. . . If they don't enlighten anyone else. . . they got me!!

[[Victor Amenta]]

Thanks Alisha, I am really flattered about this. I hope someone wins the prize. And on Taharqa they can go to the bible to verify as well.