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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Why was this piece of literature significant during this time period? How was it influential?

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period
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