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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477030403321

Autore

Levecq Christine

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , [2019]

©2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 289 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

973.714

Soggetti

Black people - Intellectual life - 18th century

Black people - Atlantic Ocean Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"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." --