Course Schedule

August 26 Course Introduction
August 28 Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative…, I-II
August 31 Equiano, III-IV
September 2 Equiano, V-VI
September 4 Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, “The Dance” & “The Horse Swap”
September 7 Labor Day
September 9 Thomas Gray, “Confessions of Nat Turner”
September 11 John Pendleton Kennedy, Swallow Barn, XVII-XIX
September 14   William & Ellen Craft, Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom, I
September 16 Craft, II
September 18 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Frederick Douglass, 1-46
September 21 Douglass, 46-79
September 23    Douglass, 79-125
September 25  No class
September 28 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I-IX
Jezebel, 7 pm at Cox Capital Theater
September 30 Stowe, X-XVIII
October 2 Stowe, XIX-XXVII
October 5  Stowe, XXVIII-XXXVI
October 7 Stowe, XXXVII-XLV
October 9   Caroline Lee Hentz, The Planter’s Northern Bride, I-II
October 10 Visit to Jarrell Plantation
October 12 Augusta Jane Evans, Macaria, XXX-XXXVI
October 14 William Wells Brown, Clotel, I-VIII
October 16  Fall Break
October 19 Lamar lecture 7:30
October 20 Lamar lectures 10:00 and 7:30
October 21 No class
October 23 Brown, IX-XIX  
October 26 Brown, XX-XXIX
October 28 Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 19-56
October 30 Twain, 56-91
November 2 Twain, 92-128
November 4  Twain, 128-167
November 6 No Class
November 9 Thomas Nelson Page, “Marse Chan”
November 11 Joel Chandler Harris, “Free Joe and the Rest of the World”
November 13 Mark Twain, “The United States of Lyncherdom”
November 16 Thomas Dixon, The Clansman, I
November 18 Dixon, II
November 20 Dixon, III
November 23 Dixon, IV
November 25 Thanksgiving Break
November 27 Thanksgiving Break
November 30 Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition, I-VII
December 2 Chesnutt, VIII-XIV
Paper abstracts due
December 4  Chesnutt, XV-XXI
December 7 Chesnutt, XXII-XXVIII
December 9 Chesnutt, XXIX-XXXVII
December 11   Writing Workshop