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10-05-2010
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The Narrative of William W. Brown, An American Slave (1847), along with the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), set the pattern for the slave narrative, one of the most widely read genres of nineteenth-century American literature and an important influence within the African American literary tradition.