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LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction  
2 Frederick Douglass, Narrative (1845)  
3 Douglass  
4 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)  
5 Stowe  
6 Stowe (cont.)  
7 Wells Brown, Clotel  (1853) Research workshop
8 Brown  
9 Melville, "Benito Cereno" (1853, 1856) Submit topic (choice of passage) for first essay
10 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred (1856) Essay (5 pages)
11 Stowe  
12 Stowe (cont.)  
13 Martin Delany, Blake (1861)  
14 Delany  
15 Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl  (1861) Submit topic (author and research question) for second essay
16 Jacobs  
17 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Essay (5 pages)
18 Twain  
19 Twain (cont.)  
20 Frances Harper, Iola Leroy (1892)  
21 Harper  
22 Conference Day  
23 Mark Twain, Puddn'head Wilson (1894)  
24 Twain Submit topic for final essay and be prepared to report on your progress
25 Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (1901)  
26 Conference Day  
27 Chesnutt  
28 Conclusion Essay (10 pages)