The Abbé Grégoire and the Atlantic Republic of Letters.

The Abbé Grégoire was a French intellectual, who maintained relationships with Panerican, Haitian, and South American republicans. These included Joel Barlow, Thomas Jefferson, Baltimore Archbishop John Carroll, and leaders of revolutions in Mexico, Haiti and other colonies in the region. He sought the emergence of a more moderate, and religiously and racially plural, republicanism, which could blossom in the New World and then be re-imported to Europe.