For our second reading of spring 2001, we will be reading two essays by Orlando Patterson, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. The essays ``Feast of Blood: `Race,' Religion, and Human Sacrifice in the Postbellum South'' and ``American Dionysus: Images of Afro-American Men at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century'' appear in Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries, Basic Civitas Books, 1998 (ISBN 10887178-82-1).

• Without Sanctuary, an on-line version of the controversial and provocative exhibition of lynching postcards assembled by James Allen. At the on-line magazine journale.com .
  
  
• Charlottesville, An African American Community in the Jim Crow South, The Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia.
  
  
• Ida B. Wells , born in slavery, became a journalist and pioneer in the battle against the injustices of the Jim Crow period and lynchings in particular. This site is sponsored by the Chicago Historical Society.
  
  
• The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords, from the PBS site for the documentary by the same name. In the early part of the 20th century, black newspapers crusaded against the injustices of Jim Crow.
  
  

• American Slave Narratives, American Studies Hypertexts, University of Virginia.
  
  
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, Includes Images of African Americans from the 19th century and site on the Harlem Renaissance.
  
  
• The African American Mosaic, A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture, which includes Abolition and references to Douglass.
  
  
• The African American Odyssey, A Library of Congress site from the Congress' American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. See the section on Abolition.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution: African American History and Culture , Washington, D. C.
  
  
• Writing Black , Literature and History written by and on African-Americans, University of Keele, UK.
  
  

• Hypertext Projects at the University of Virginia In addition to the Slave Narratives cited above, this site contains projects concerning Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others.
  
  
• Web Resources An extensive list on African American Studies from Georgetown University.
  
  
• Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
  
  
• John Henrik Clarke Africana Library , Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
  
  
• African American Studies at Princeton A good resource for research from Princeton University.