Mayanna1

__Biography__
My name is Mayanna Parker, I was born September 11 1993. I'm hard of hearing and I wear two hearing aids. I go to Lincoln High School as a Junior. I live in Philadelphia. I like going to school. I like sports like track and basketball. My favorite color is purple. I’m 5’4" tall, brown skinned and I have pretty brown eyes. My favorite subject is history. I like to study about people and their history.

When I am grown up, I want to be a lawyer. My favorite show is Law & Order SVU. After high school, I want to go to college for four years. Then after that, I want to go law school.

I live with my grandma. I love my grandma who means the world to me. We love going shopping together. I also like hanging out with my friends!

===**I am is interesting in history, beacuse I want to know about slavery in the 1800s. So far i know that** === ===**a slave name Henry "Box" Brown, who escape in a box to Philadelphia.** === ===**Henry Brown was born in Louisa County, Va In 1816.He Had 4 sisters and 3 brothers, when he was 15 brown was separated from his family.he was sent to Richmond to work in the tobacco factory of his's master son , Williams. While he was working in Richmond and living there, Henry Brown married a slave name Nancy In 1836, they had three children. In 1848 his wife and children were sold to another master In North Carliona. After losing his family. He began to plan to escape to freedom. He also had Friends helped Him to escape.James Smith, a black freedman, and Samuel Smith, a white shoemaker , who ironically own slaves himself. March 23 1849, brown crawled into a tiny wooden box, it was three feet one inch long, two feet wide , and two feet six inches high. He asked thses man to mailed him to phildelphia! ** ===