# Readings

## Required Texts

Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Mentor/Penguin, 1987. ISBN: 0451627261.

[Download Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, a version of Frederick Douglass's Narrative, or download Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, a version of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from Project Gutenberg.]

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 0140390030.

[Download Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.]

Melville, Herman. "Benito Cereno." In The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Selected and Edited by Paul Lauter, et al. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. ISBN: 0618109196.

Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. Three Classic African-American Novels. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 0679727426.

[Download Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter, a revised version of William Wells Brown's Clotel, download The Marrow of Tradition, a version of Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition, or download Iola Leroy, a version of Frances Harper's Iola Leroy from Project Gutenberg.]

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN: 0140439048.

Delany, Martin. Blake: or, the Huts of America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. ISBN: 080706419X.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 0140390464.

[Download The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.]

Twain, Mark. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN: 0192818066.

[Download Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.]

Table for Readings Section
LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS
--- | --- | ---
1 | Introduction |
2 | Frederick Douglass, Narrative (1845) | Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Mentor/Penguin, 1987. ISBN: 0451627261.
3 | Douglass |
4 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 0140390030.
5 | Stowe |
6 | Stowe (cont.) |
7 | Wells Brown, Clotel (1853) Research Workshop | Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. Three Classic African-American Novels. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 0679727426.
8 | Brown |
9 | Melville, "Benito Cereno" (1853, 1856) Submit topic (choice of passage) for first essay. | Melville, Herman. "Benito Cereno." In Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism. Selected and Edited by Dan McCall. New York: Norton, 2002. ISBN: 0393976416.
10 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred (1856) | Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN: 0140439048.
11 | Stowe |
12 | Stowe (cont.) |
13 | Martin Delany, Blake (1861) | Delany, Martin. Blake: or, the Huts of America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. ISBN: 080706419X.
14 | Delany |
15 | Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) Submit topic (author and research question) for second essay. | Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Mentor/Penguin, 1987. ISBN: 0451627261.
16 | Jacobs |
17 | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) | Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 0140390464.
18 | Twain |
19 | Twain (cont.) |
20 | Frances Harper, Iola Leroy (1892) | Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. Three Classic African-American Novels. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 0679727426.
21 | Harper |
22 | Conference Day |
23 | Mark Twain, Puddn'head Wilson (1894) | Twain, Mark. Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN: 0192818066.
24 | Twain Submit topic for final essay and be prepared to report on your progress. |
25 | Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (1901) | Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. Three Classic African-American Novels. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 0679727426.
26 | Conference Day |
27 | Chesnutt |
28 | Conclusion |