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..
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.