Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World

by Carole Lynn Stewart

Book Overview

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 travels, a reversal of the involuntary movement of enslavement, form the basis for a critical mode of cosmopolitan freedom rooted in temperance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271090235
• ISBN13: 9780271090238
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"