For Wednesday, you will be reading two autobiographical narratives. One is by Frederick Douglass and is an excerpt from his autobiography, My Bondage, My Freedom and is the red book from pages 426-430. The other is a handout from Harriet Jacob's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, and will be read on hand out.
I am short on paper copies, so I will provide one Jacobs handout per table tonight. If you have the handout, you should plan on reading Jacobs tonight and Douglass on Tuesday night, remembering to bring the handout back to your table partner to give them in class tomorrow.
If you did not receive the handout today, you should read Douglass in your red book tonight, and then read the Jacobs piece Tuesday night.
As they both address the slave experience, both pieces are upsetting to read, the Jacobs piece the more so, so do your best to work with each text despite the disturbing content.
A not so great PDF copy of the Jacobs piece is available here if you don't want to wait, or you don't trust your table partner.
