Black cosmopolitans : race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution /

Levecq, Christine,

Black cosmopolitans : race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution / Race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution Christine Levecq. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 289 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

Jacobus Capitein and the Radical Possibilities of Calvinism -- Jean-Baptiste Belley and French Republicanism -- John Marrant: From Methodism to Freemasonry.

"This book examines the life and intellectual contributions of three extraordinary black men--Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant--whose experiences and writing helped shape racial, social, and political thought throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world."



9780813942193


Black people--Intellectual life--18th century.
Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography.
Freed persons--Biography.
African Americans--Intellectual life--18th century.
Cosmopolitanism--History--18th century.


Electronic Books.

CB235 / .B533 2019