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To Mr. M-.
February 8, 1777.
Zounds! if alive-what ails you? if dead-why did you not fend me word?
-from "Letter XLII"
Ignatius Sancho was born aboard a slave ship in 1729; by the time he died in 1780, he was not only a free man but a respected member of British society. He entertained the cream of literary and artistic London, served as a butler for the Duchess of Montague, and was the first black man to vote in a British election.
This collection of his letters, first published in book form in 1782 to enormous popular acclaim, documents his extraordinary life with wit and insight, and features correspondence with many famous names of the day, including the actor Garrick, the Montague family, the sculptor Nollekins, and the writer Laurence Sterne.
As a London celebrity, Sancho was a rallying point for British abolitionists, and his writings continue to provide an invaluable and unusual first-person perspective on the experience of free blacks during the slave trade.
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Seth Sauberman
reviewed An Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho on December 04, 2011
An Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho
Sancho is a really entertaining writer but I wish the ebook had had more footnotes! It got super confusing when everybody was Mr M-- and Miss C-- and it was never explained who was who or why he was writing to them.
I was also wondering whether his excessively complimentary style was because he really thought everybody he was writing to was awesome, or because that's just how friends wrote to each other in the 1700s, or whether that's what worked for him considering the position and society he was in.
The most interesting letters were the ones he wrote to the young black guy who was "adopted" and spoilt by the Marquess of something or other, and who was very talented but super wild, and was sent out to India to make a fresh start.
ETA: I didn't actually read the Penguin classics edition. That probably would have helped! I read the free Kindle Classics version with no modern foreword or anything.
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