Temperance and Cosmopolitanism

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

“In this study Carole Lynn Stewart shows how a group of enslaved, ex-enslaved, or fugitive African American women and men, through international travel, imaginative vision, and intellectual insight, critically expanded the practice and ideal of temperance from an individualistic, inner purity blind to the corruption of a civic order that tolerated slavery and enabled temperance to a serve as the vital basis for both the inward and societal meanings of freedom.”

—Charles H. Long, author of Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion