Welcome to US History 9 for the Talented & Gifted! I look forward to getting to know you all next school year. In the meantime, before we meet . . .

Please read “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs (pseudonym Linda Brent) and/or the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” by Frederick Douglass by the beginning of the school year. Both of these are available in several editions and forms and can be easily located in libraries and bookstores. The Classic Slave Narratives edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a nice edition and includes both the story of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass. However, both slave narratives are also available in full text online at the following addresses.

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs

• http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html
• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/jacobs/hj-site-index.htm

“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” by Frederick Douglass

• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/
• http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DouNarr.html