Texts
Hariot, Thomas. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1972.
Rowlandson, Mary. Sovereignty and Goodness of God. Boston, MA: Bedford Books, 1997. ISBN: 0312111517.
Seaver, James E., and Mary Jemison. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. ISBN: 0806123818.
Apess, William. A Son of the Forest and Other Writings. Edited by Barry O'Connell. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. ISBN: 1558491074.
Douglass, Frederick, and Harriet A. Jacobs. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2000. ISBN: 0679783288.
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2004. ISBN: 0375761152.
Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0300098588.
Readings by Sessions
| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introductions and Contexts | |
| 2-3 | Harriot | |
| 4-5 | Natives and Newcomers in the Northeast | Morton, Thomas. New English Canaan, Book I, chapters III, XVIII, XX; Book II, chapters I, XIV, XV, XVI. In Jack Dempsey ed., New English Canaan: Text, Notes, Biography and Criticism. Scituate, MA: Digital Scanning, 2000, 2002. pp. 19-20, 45-46, 48-55, 134-148. ISBN: 1582181500. Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I, selections from chapters I, IV, VII, IX, X, XII; Book II, selections from chapters XI, XIX, XXIII, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV. In The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York, NY: Alfred Knopf, 1980. pp. 49-80. ISBN: 0393953777. |
| 6-10 | Women, Captivity, Transculturation | Rowlandson, Mary. Sovereignty and Goodness of God. Boston, MA: Bedford Books, 1997. ISBN: 0312111517. Seaver, James E., and Mary Jemison. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. ISBN: 0806123818. Wheatley, Phillis. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). Digital edition at Renascence Editions (PDF). Wheatley, Phillis. Unpublished letters, in Vincent Carretta ed., Complete Writings. New York, NY: Penguin, 2001. pp. 139-162. ISBN: 014042430X. |
| 11 | Field Trip (Boston) | |
| 12-14 | Women, Captivity, Transculturation (cont.) | Douglass, Frederick, and Harriet A. Jacobs. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2000. ISBN: 0679783288. Odell, Margaretta Matilda. Memoir, in Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (1834). Digital edition at Documenting the American South. |
| 15 | Field Trip (Concord) | |
| 16 | Presenting Work-in-progress | |
| 17-19 | Native Speakers and English Eloquence | Apess, William. A Son of the Forest and Other Writings. Edited by Barry O'Connell. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. ISBN: 1558491074. Occom, Samson. "A Short Narrative of My Life" (1768). In Colin Calloway ed., The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America. Boston, MA: St. Martin's Press, 1994. pp. 54-61. ISBN: 0312083505. Quinney, Josiah. "July 4 Speech" (1854). In Colin Calloway ed., The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America. Boston, MA: St. Martin's Press, 1994. pp. 40-41. ISBN: 0312083505. |
| 20-24 | Men's Work, Education and Bondage | Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2004. ISBN: 0375761152. Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin New Haven. CT: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 0300098588. |
| 25 | Presenting Work-in-progress | |
| 26-27 | Men's Work, Education and Bondage (cont.) | Douglass, Frederick, and Harriet A. Jacobs. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2000. ISBN: 0679783288. |