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Black cosmopolitans : race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution / Christine Levecq.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levecq, Christine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Black people.
- Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--Biography.
- Capitein, J. E. J. (Jacobus Elisa Joannes), 1717-1747.
- Capitein, J. E. J.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 289 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Black Cosmopolitans
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2019]
- 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." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Jacobus Capitein and the Radical Possibilities of Calvinism
- Jean-Baptiste Belley and French Republicanism
- John Marrant: From Methodism to Freemasonry.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-280) and index.
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