Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters
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Description: A comprehensive introduction to the life and work of an 18th century slave, and his achievements in London; includes a biography, extracts from his writing, images, links, music, and bibliography,
Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) was said to have been born a slave on a ship crossing the Atlantic from Africa to the West Indies. Although this is now thought to be unlikely, his origins were African while his earliest memories were of Greenwich, near London, where he was forced to work as a child slave. He persuaded the powerful Montagu family to employ him as their butler, before retiring to run a grocery shop in Westminster. He composed music, appeared on the stage, and entertained many famous figures of literary and artistic London. The first African we know of to vote in a British election, he wrote a large number of letters which were collected and published in 1782, two years after his death. He was thought of in his age as "the extraordinary Negro", and to eighteenth-century opponents of the slave trade he became a symbol of the humanity of Africans. In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in the life and works of Ignatius Sancho. This website aims to reflect the work being done by Sancho scholars around the world. To find out more, follow the links opposite the detail of Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of Sancho, painted in Bath in 1768.
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| Page title: | Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters |
| Keywords: | Ignatius, Sancho, eighteenth, century, history, literature, Black, African, Africa, slave, slavery, enslaved, servant, butler, shopkeeper, letters, London, Greenwich, Westminster, Montagu, England, English, Britain, British, Laurence Sterne, Brycchan, Carey |
| Description: | A comprehensive introduction to Ignatius Sancho's life and work, including a biography, extracts from his writing, images, links, music, and bibliography |
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