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dc.contributor.authorLevecq, Christine
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-10T14:02:53Z
dc.date.available2021-02-10T14:02:53Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41257
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32862
dc.description.abstract"Black Cosmopolitans examines the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men—Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant—who traveled extensively throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Unlike millions of uprooted Africans and their descendants at the time, these men did not live lives of toil and sweat in the plantations of the New World. Marrant was born free, while Capitein and Belley became free when young, and this freedom gave them not only mobility but also the chance to make significant contributions to print culture. As public intellectuals, Capitein, Belley, and Marrant developed a cosmopolitan vision of the world anchored in the republican ideals of civic virtue and communal life, and so helped radicalize the calls for freedom that were emerging from the Enlightenment. Relying on sources in English, French, and Dutch, Christine Levecq shows that Calvinism, the French Revolution, and freemasonry were major inspirations for this republicanism. 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."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studiesen_US
dc.subject.othercalvinism
dc.subject.otherFrench revolution
dc.subject.otherAtlantic history
dc.subject.otherslave trade
dc.subject.otherrepublicanism
dc.titleBlack Cosmopolitans
dc.title.alternativeRace, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.32881/book4
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy95267987-27aa-4359-a270-ff1539521a88
oapen.relation.isbn9780813942186
oapen.pages304
oapen.place.publicationCharlottesville
dc.dateSubmitted2020-08-12T09:52:39Z


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