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Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African 2 Volume Set: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life (Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition) - Softcover
Born a slave, Ignatius Sancho (c.1729-80) became one of the most influential free Africans of his century. Largely self-taught, he was the first black Briton known to have voted in parliamentary elections and to be given an obituary in the British press. He corresponded with many notable figures, including the author Laurence Sterne, whom he urged to write against slavery in the West Indies. The politician Joseph Jekyll (1754-1837) commended Sancho's 'epistolary talent' in a brief biography, praising his 'wild patriotism' and 'universal philanthropy'. This two-volume collection of Sancho's letters was published in 1782 by the hostess Frances Crewe (1748-1818), who upheld Sancho as proof, in an age of dehumanising slavery, that Africans possessed as much natural intelligence as Europeans. Volume 1 contains Jekyll's biography, a list of more than 1,200 subscribers, and letters for the period 1768-78. Volume 2 contains letters spanning 1778-80.
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Born a slave and largely self-taught, Ignatius Sancho (c.1729-80) corresponded in Britain with a wide social circle that included nobility, artists and politicians. Published in 1782, this two-volume collection of his charmingly composed letters helped counter contemporary racism by showing that Africans possessed as much natural intelligence as Europeans.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1108065325
- ISBN 13 9781108065320
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages506
- EditorCrewe Frances
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