Examining the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men - Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant - Christine Levecq 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.
University Of Virginia Press Black cosmopolitans. race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution, hardback/christine levecq
