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March 29, 1849. In a tobacco factory in Richmond, Virginia, 33-year-old Henry Brown is finishing

his shift at his bench. Glancing around him, he unstoppers the bottle of sulfuric acid,

an agent in tobacco production. He takes a deep breath and applies the odorless liquid

directly onto his hand. The burning is immediate and exquisitely painful. He rushes to the

foreman and shows him the injury. Seeing bone, the foreman sends him away and tells him

not to come in the next day. Brown might be a slave, but even a slave can't work in

that condition. Teeth gritted in agony. Brown exits the large wooden building. He rushes

home to bandage his wound, but there's little comfort for him there. Weeks previously,

his pregnant wife and three children were sold to another slaveholder. Despite his desperate

attempts to buy their freedom, he's grieving bitterly, but at least now he has a plan.

He waits for nightfall, Len goes out into the darkness. In another part of town, his

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