| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Frederick Douglass, Narrative (1845) | |
| 3 | Douglass | |
| 4 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | |
| 5 | Stowe | |
| 6 | Stowe (cont.) | |
| 7 | Wells Brown, Clotel (1853) | Research workshop |
| 8 | Brown | |
| 9 | Melville, "Benito Cereno" (1853, 1856) | Submit topic (choice of passage) for first essay |
| 10 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred (1856) | Essay (5 pages) |
| 11 | Stowe | |
| 12 | Stowe (cont.) | |
| 13 | Martin Delany, Blake (1861) | |
| 14 | Delany | |
| 15 | Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) | Submit topic (author and research question) for second essay |
| 16 | Jacobs | |
| 17 | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) | Essay (5 pages) |
| 18 | Twain | |
| 19 | Twain (cont.) | |
| 20 | Frances Harper, Iola Leroy (1892) | |
| 21 | Harper | |
| 22 | Conference Day | |
| 23 | Mark Twain, Puddn'head Wilson (1894) | |
| 24 | Twain | Submit topic for final essay and be prepared to report on your progress |
| 25 | Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (1901) | |
| 26 | Conference Day | |
| 27 | Chesnutt | |
| 28 | Conclusion | Essay (10 pages) |
