Briton Hammon (Q490889)
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HC-PER-34431
- HC-PER-34431
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Briton Hammon
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HC-PER-34431
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Statements
Slave
Sailor (Trading Vessel)
Slave Narrative Author
Enslaved. Possibly Free before 13th Amendment.The author of A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (1760), Hammon is credited with being the first black individual to write a text in America.