Black Cosmopolitans - Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution

By exploring these cosmopolitan men's connections to their black communities, she argues that the eighteenth-century Atlantic world fostered an elite of black thinkers who took advantage of surrounding ideologies to spread a message of universal inclusion and egalitarianism.

About the author

Christine Levecq is Associate Professor of Humanities at Kettering University and the author of Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770-1850.

Summary

Examining the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men - Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant - Christine Levecq argues that the eighteenth-century Atlantic world fostered an elite of black thinkers who took advantage of surrounding ideologies to spread a message of universal inclusion and egalitarianism.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Levecq
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780813942186
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-4218-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history