Sancho, (Charles) Ignatius

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Sancho, (Charles) Ignatius (1729?–80), Afro-British letter writer, born on a slave ship during the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. Brought to England as a child, he eventually became valet to the duke of Montague, who helped him to establish a Westminster grocery shop in 1774. Sancho published letters in newspapers on public affairs and was known as a correspondent and admirer of Sterne. Sancho also composed music, wrote (lost) plays, and was the first Afro-British patron of white writers and artists. A former correspondent published Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1782), increasing Sancho's fame as writer, devoted husband and father, wit, man of feeling, critic, opponent of slavery and racial discrimination in England, Africa, and India, and friend of Sterne, Garrick, and John Hamilton Mortimer. See Black British literature.

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