Class 1:

Folktales from Mules and Men. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/grand-jean/hurston/chapters/index.html

“Monkeying Around:  Trickster Figures and American Culture” https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit08/context_activ-4.html; “The African American Toast Tradition,” http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/creole_art_toast_tradition.html

DB due today. Autobiographies are due today.

Class 2:

Frances EW Harper, “The Slave Mother” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51977

Harriet Jacobs, Incidents,  ch. 21-40 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/jacobs/hj-site-index.htm