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Type of genre and its brilliance by "Briton Hammon"          Briton Hammons captivity narrative was a well-recognized African American prose text that was published in North America. His life has been particular to the information that is within his narrative. While reading through his prose it is still subject as to whether he was a servant or a slave. In his narrative he has tried to explain a life of a man of African decent and how he gets along with the public knowledge base and made use of the opportunities he was given.     Hammon mainly discussed the issue of his suffering darn he was in captivity. In the introduction he explains him and other the great unwashed were brought to the shore and were suddenly attack by sixty Native Americans, " only when on advancing yet nearer, we found them, to our Surprize, to be Indians of which there were threescore being now so near them we could not possibly rece ive our Escape." (pg 1005) He says as soon as they figured out who these race were it was already too late to escape. He also says that all their accouterments and necessary items were taken away from them. While reading along his narrative, Hammon describes how these Indian caused an environment of terror among these people, and how he tried to escape from these savages and was once again trapped with them. Soon he escaped from these villains by getting alongside a Spanish scho one and only(a)r, later he was imprisoned again in a dungeon for four years in Spain because he refused to treat their ships. After escaping that imprisonment Hammon worked in Cuba, which lead to his opportunity to go endorse to London. As said before, Hammons life is limited to the information contained within the narrative. He had spent thirteen years of his life in captivity.      Hammons narrative is one of the best examples of genre. He chose to write a narrative so that hi s earshot thoroughly understand the hardships that he went through while being an African decent and a captive. According to his writing he was liked were always he went as a prisoner, which forced the Indians to request an appeal for his relief, "the Captain came to the Prison, and askd the steward if he might see me upon his Request I was brought out of the holdintercede with the Governor for my Reliefand the next Day the Governor direct an order to release me.