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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave influenced Kindred
Added by Media Influence Map · 6 October 2026
The influence
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Nonfiction · 1845
The work it shaped
Kindred
Book · 1979
The evidence
Octavia Butler read slave narratives to research Kindred, Frederick Douglass's autobiography among them; the novel is modelled on the form, a first-person account of bondage, punishment and escape.
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