Temperance and cosmopolitanism : African American reformers in the Atlantic world /
Carole Lynn Stewart.
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages)
- Africana religions .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : slave travels and the beginnings of a temperate cosmopolitanism -- William Wells Brown and Martin Delany : civil and geographic spaces of temperate cosmopolitanism -- Brown's temperate cosmopolitan "home" : Creole civilization and temperate manners -- George Moses Horton's freedom : a temperate republicanism and a critical cosmopolitanism -- Frances E.W. Harper's Black cosmopolitan Creoles : a temperate transnationalism -- "The quintessence of sanctifying grace" : Amanda Smith's religious experience, freedom, and a temperate cosmopolitanism -- Epilogue : tempering and conjuring the roots of cosmopolitan recovery.
"A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom"--Provided by publisher
9780271083094 9780271083117
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism. American literature--History and criticism.--19th century Cosmopolitanism in literature. Temperance in literature. African American social reformers--History--19th century.