Briton Hammon's memoir, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Suprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man—Servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New England; Who Returned to Boston, after Having Been Absent Almost Thirteen Years, holds an important spot in American history as one of the first African American slave narratives. Such narratives became an essential facet of American literature. Hammon's narrative was printed and sold by Green & Russel, a publishing house in Boston, in 1760. Little is known about Hammon except what was published in his memoir, which tells of the extraordinary experiences that brought him around the world.