Letters Of The Late Ignatius Sancho, An African Volume:Volume 1 Rivera-Servera

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Author: Bryant Terry

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Letters Of The Late Ignatius Sancho, An African Volume:Volume 1 Rivera-ServeraBorn a slave, Ignatius Sancho (c. 172980) 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 (17541837) commended Sancho's