Temperance and Cosmopolitanism : : African American Reformers in the Atlantic World / / Carole Lynn Stewart.

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith. Their voluntary...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2018
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Africana Religions ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Slave Travels and the Beginnings of a Temperate Cosmopolitanism
  • 1. William Wells Brown and Martin Delany: Civil and Geographic Spaces of Temperate Cosmopolitanism
  • 2. Brown's Temperate Cosmopolitan "Home": Creole Civilization and Temperate Manners
  • 3. George Moses Horton's Freedom: A Temperate Republicanism and a Critical Cosmopolitanism
  • 4. Frances E. W. Harper's Black Cosmopolitan Creoles: A Temperate Transnationalism
  • 5. "The Quintessence of Sanctifying Grace": Amanda Smith's Religious Experience, Freedom, and a Temperate Cosmopolitanism
  • Epilogue: Tempering and Conjuring the Roots of Cosmopolitan Recovery
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index