Black cosmopolitans: race, religion, and republicanism in an age of revolution
Auteur :
Levecq, Christine
Éditeur :
University of Virginia Press
ISBN :
9780813942186
Date de publication :
16 juil. 2019
Dimensions :
23,1 x 15,7 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
530 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.