In The Mail Poem by Ima Ryma

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.