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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levecq, Christine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Capitein, J. E. J. > (Jacobus Elisa Joannes), > 1717-1747.
Belley, Jean-Baptiste, > 1747-1805.
Marrant, John, > 1755-1791.
Blacks > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Blacks > Atlantic Ocean Region > Biography.
Freedmen > Biography.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Cosmopolitanism > History > 18th century.
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813942186
0813942187