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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... to England and given to three maiden sisters in Greenwich , who believed that keeping the child ignorant would render him submissive . They surnamed him Sancho because they thought he resembled the fictional Don ix I.
Ignatius Sancho Vincent Carretta. him Sancho because they thought he resembled the fictional Don Quixote's squire . Fortunately for the young slave , John , second duke of Mon- tagu , had a house in nearby Blackheath and met Sancho by ac ...
... thought as incoherent and eccentric , as is the course of a meteor through the sky . His sub- jects should often have led him to a process of sober reasoning : yet we find him always substituting sentiment for demonstration . Upon the ...
... thoughts , and endeavour to recommend our opinion by studied ornaments , accuracy of method , and elegance of stile . Like most commentators , Johnson believed that what he calls ' epistolary integrity " in his " Pope " ( 1781 ) ( from ...
... thought . Sancho invokes the same convention when he writes to John Spink on 21 November 1779 , " I write first , and think after- wards .... " Sancho certainly knew that there would be public interest in his letters : his fame during ...