Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an AfricanPenguin, 1998 - 336 oldal Born on a slave ship enroute to the West Indies, orphaned by the age of two and taken to England by his owner, Ignatius Sancho rose from servitude to include among his friends noted artists, writers, actors, and prominent politicians. Sancho first gained celebrity when one of his letters appeared in the novelist Laurence Sterne's Letters (1775) and, inspired by the editor's desire to show "that an untutored African may possess abilities equal to a European", two volumes of Sancho's letters were published shortly after his death. The literary quality and the historical importance of the letters endure, revealing a man of sensitivity, intellect, and charm, while also presenting an unusual chronicle of the times. Sancho offers young men fatherly advice on their futures; writes flirtatiously to young women; relates the joys and sorrows of family life; swaps literary jokes; and comments perceptively on the issues of the day. His thoughts on race and politics -- including his criticism of British imperialism in India, the complicity of Africans in the slave trade, and the blatant racism that flourishes in his adopted homeland -- will be of particular interest to twentieth-century readers. While some letters may have been abridged because of the original editor's concerns about public sensitivities, they remain a powerful testament to the injustices of racial discrimination. |
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... hand ; points which would not be of easy investigation . The reviewers and commentators judged Sancho's Letters by the traditional standards of what Jefferson calls " the epistolary class " -the genre of published collected ...
... hand , and the reader's needs and desires are of primary importance . Sancho's own prac- tice tends more to the essay form than the confession , blurring the line between private and public audience because his pub- lished essays are ...
... hand upon his goodly round paunch . ' Such lagos as you , we meet with in every dirty passage . Proceed , Sir ! ' " Identification of Me- heux's newspaper articles referred to in letters II and L in Vol- ume I enables us to see that ...
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