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

Name: Black Cosmopolitans: Race, Religion, and Republicanism in an Age of Revolution
Brand: University of Virginia Press
SKU: 9780813942186
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Contributors:

Christine Levecq

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Religion, Biography & Autobiography, History

Book Subcategory:

Philosophy, Europe

Edition Description:

2nd Revised Edition

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Release Date:

2019-07-16

ISBN 13:

9780813942186

Weight:

1.2 lbs

Size:

9.10 x 6.20 x 0.90 inches

Pages:

304

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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.

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.

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