Cathia Jenainati's Lectures
This page contains material I presented in previous years which may still be of interest to you.
Gender, Domesticity, and Ideologies of Private Life
Slavery in America (slave trade)
Marriage of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell under protest
nathaniel Hawthorne, the scarlet letter (1850)
SERMONS
John Winthorpe, A Modell of Christian Charity (1630)
Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1740)
Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Online sources:
The Library Congress: Slavery--The Peculiar Institution
Abolitionism in America
Selection of articles: article 1, article 2, article 3, article 4, article 5 (from JSTOR)
Powerpoint presentation from the lecture (November 2009) and the Word doc
Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
Early African American Perspectives on the Wilmington Race Riots of 1898
John Merrick's speech on the race riots in Wilmington: brief excerpt or whole book
Black Codes, including Emancipation Proclamation
Americans of African Ancestry is an excellent essay offering a thoughtful and concise account of African-Americans' contributions to the literature and culture of the US in antebellum and post-bellum periods.
Harlem 1900-1940: An online exhibition
Herman Melville's "Paradise of bachelors, Tartarus of maids" (1855) and "Bartleby the Scrivener: a tale of Wall Street" (1853)
Powerpoint presentation of my lecture
Here's the text of Emerson's lecture "The Transcendentalist"
Here's the link to the article on Bartleby and Thoreau that I mentioned in the lecture: Egbert S. Oliver, "A second Look at 'Bartleby'" in College English, Vol. 6, No. 8 (May, 1945), pp. 431-439 <Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/370322>
Stanton at Seneca Falls
Seneca Falls
Chesnutt Stamp 1978
New York 1850
Wall Street 1850
Female workers in a textile sweatshop 1850