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Sancho & Me

Charles Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship on the Atlantic Ocean in 1729, yet he became a writer, composer, shopkeeper and respected ‘man of letters’ in 18th century London becoming the first ...
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USC has the letters of the first Black person to vote in Britain. Or so they thought.

COLUMBIA — It was the perfect challenge for the University of South Carolina's rare books department: use its historical collections to build an exhibit about Charles Ignatius Sancho, a British writer ...
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Ignatius Sancho : an African man of letters

Review of the exhibition on Ignatius Sancho, held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1997. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...
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Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African / edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta

The letters here present a unique and interesting chronicle of the times. Sancho discusses issues which include his own life story from his beginnings as a slave, following his rise to fame and ...