Online readings for ENG 366 Slavery and Freedom

Week Ten

Plantation Fiction

http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/mackethan/5b.htm

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/plant.htm

Thomas Dixon

http://docsouth.unc.edu/dixonclan/dixon.html#dixon187

Charles Chesnutt

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/chesnutt.htm

Thomas Neson Page

http://docsouth.unc.edu/pageolevir/page.html#page1

Week SEVEN

I. Readings related to close reading assignment

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/CloseReading.html

http://theliterarylink.com/closereading.html

http://www.cgu.edu/print/918.asp

http://www.boisestate.edu/english/mnewman/english278cr2.html

http://www.boisestate.edu/english/mnewman/english278cr1.html

WEEK SIX

I.                    Useful Secondary Readings

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/

Literature Resource Center http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=messiah&srchtp=athr&ca=1&c=7&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=85784&n=10&docNum=H1200010168&ST=Stowe%2C+Harriet&bConts=278191

University of Vriginia 

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA97/riedy/hbs.html

What is Sentimental Fiction

Sentimental Fiction and its primary characteristics

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/domestic.htm

What is the significance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/

WEEK FOUR

I.                                Useful Secondary Readings

Christian Arguments concerning Slavery

Historical Overview of Christianity and slavery

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_slav.htm

General Pro-Slavery Arguments

http://www.ysursa.com/history/Reference%20pages/civil%20war/proslavery_defense.htm

Baptist justifications of slavery

http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/rcd-fmn1.htm

WEEK THREE

I.                    Useful Secondary Readings

Slave Narratives

General Definitions of Slave Narrative

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/slave.htm

Documents of the South                                             

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html

WPA Slave Narratives at the University of Virginia.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

WPA Slave Narratives in the Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Papers in the Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

http://www.nps.gov/frdo/freddoug.html

Frederick Douglass and the Slave Narrative

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/dougnot.htm

WEEK TWO

I.                                Required Readings

Emerson

Self Reliance

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/14.htm

The Divinity School Address

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/dsa.html

Thoreau

Slavery in Massachusetts

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/slaverymass.html

Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/civil/

II.                             Useful Secondary Readings

Fugitive Slave Law

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/fugitive.htm

Transcendentalism

What is Transcendentalism?

http://www.transcendentalists.com/what.htm

The General Principles of Transcendentalism

http://www.bartleby.com/225/1707.html

Links for Transcendentalism on Social and Political Reform

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/reform.html

Emerson

Emerson Home Page

http://www.rwe.org/comm/

Emerson as Abolitionist

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/rwe-abolition.html

Emerson on Women

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/woman.html

Thoreau

Thoreau Home Page

http://www.transcendentalists.com/1thorea.html

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

http://www.thoreau.niu.edu/new_main.html

Thoreau on John Brown

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/martyr.html

Week One Required Readings

Olaudah Equiano

Autobiography Chapter Three

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/equiano1.html#p45

Autobiography Chapter Four

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano2/equiano2.html#p115

Benjamin Franklin

A Conversation on Slavery.  26 January 1770

http://www.historycarper.com/resources/twobf3/slavery.htm

Address to the Public concerning slavery, 1789

http://www.usconstitution.com/AddresstoPublicConcerningSlaveryBenFranklin.htm

On the Slave Trade, 1790

http://www.sniggle.net/historicus.php

Historical Documents

Declaration of Independence

http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/declaration_transcript.html

Important Secondary Readings

Thomas Jefferson on Slavery

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/slavery.htm

Phyllis Wheatley Poems

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/wheatley.html