Tuesday, September 10 All Men Are Created Equal? -- The Revolution

Reading:

Thomas Paine, "An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex" (1775), in Course Reader, pp. 1-2.
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776, WW, pp. 104-105;
John Adams, letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776, Course Reader, p. 3;
Abigail Adams, letter to Mercy Otis Warren, April 27, 1776, WW, pp. 105-106;
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, June 30 [1778], WW, pp. 108-109;
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776) in Course Reader, pp. 4-5.

Phyllis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (176/1773), WW, 111; "To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth" (1772/1773), 113-14; "To His Excellency General Washington" (1775/1776), 115-16.

W&AE, pp. 36-70.

Wednesday, September 11, 7:00 PM, SH-221: FILM: The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
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Thursday, September 12 Early Nineteenth Century

Reading:

W&AE, pp. 71-108

Catharine Maria Sedgwick, from Hope Leslie (1827), WW, pp. 177-91.

Tuesday, September 17 Slavery

Reading:

W&AE, pp. 108-128.

Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), in Course Reader, pp. 6-14.

Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), WW, pp. 315-20, 327-35, 337-44.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), in Women's Work, pp. 249-259; 276-283)

Wednesday, September 18, 7:00 PM, SH 221: FILM: Snow White (1938)
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Thursday, September 19 The Self-Made Man & the Cult of True Womanhood

Reading:

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841) in Course Reader, pp. 15-27;

Margaret Fuller, from Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), WW, 206-217;

Amy Clampitt, "Margaret Fuller, 1847" (poem 1987), WW, 951-53.