Course Texts: Many of the course readings are available online, through Reed's electronic reserves or through other sources via links from the Course Schedule. The following books should be purchased for the course; they are available at the Reed bookstore, but if you prefer to buy them elsewhere note which editions we are using:

1. Aphra Behn Oroonoko or, the Royal Slave (Bedford St. Martin's Press)
2. William Wells Brown Clotel (Bedford St. Martin's Press)
3. Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave (Oxford University Press)
4. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper A Brighter Coming Day (The Feminist Press)
5. Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (Harvard University Press)
6. Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly (Penguin)
7. Phyllis Wheatley Complete Writings (Penguin)
8. Harriet E. Wilson Our Nig (Vintage)

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