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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1. VerfasserIn: Stewart, Carole Lynn (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: University Park, Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania State University Press [2018]
In:Jahr: 2018
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Africana religions
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B USA / Literatur / Schwarze / Abolitionismus / Temperenzler / Geschichte 1800-1900
weitere Schlagwörter:B <650> s American literature y 19th century x 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
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0271082038