"Disenfranchised": African, Native American, gendered female, spiritual nonconformist, indentured servant, youth.  "Literature":  poetry, captivity narrative, criminal narrative, spiritual autobiography, memoir, slave narrative, novel. In this class, we will read work by escaped captives, anonymous congregations, abused wives, midwives, Black seamen, Native American preachers, and nameless writers. Individual authors include William Apess, Abigail Abbot Bailey, Martha Ballard, Black Hawk, Anne Bradstreet, Olaudah Equiano, Austin Reed, and Mary Rowlandson, in addition to others anonymous or and/or communal.