Useful texts and resources:

Writing and teaching about slavery: https://naacpculpeper.org/resources/writing-about-slavery-this-might-help/

This is an interesting and very recent event that has to do with some of the authors and scholars we are reading: https://simoneleighvenice2022.org/loophole-of-retreat/

Article on Harriet Jacobs: Hannah Manshel, “‘Never Allowed for Property’: Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier before the Law” in American Literature, 94, 2, June 2022:

Article on Claudia Rankine’s Citizen:

Keegan Cook Finberg, “American Lyric, American Surveillance, and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen”, Contemporary Women’s Writing, 15, 3, November 2021.