Temperance and cosmopolitanism: african american reformers in the atlantic world
"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
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2018]
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Africana religions
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Literature
/ Blacks
/ Abolitionists
/ Temperenzler
/ History 1800-1900
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| Further subjects: | B
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American literature
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History and criticism
B <650> s American literature x African American authors x History and criticism B <650> s Cosmopolitanism in literature B <650> s African American social reformers x History y 19th century B <650> s Temperance in literature |
| Summary: | "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 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0271082038 |