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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

Course readings.

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. 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 Unpublished letters, in Vincent Carretta ed., Complete Writings.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.