Later this year the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho
singled out Laurence Sterne
and the humane author of Sir George Ellison as the only writers to have drawn a tear in favour of my miserable black...
Literary responses
Phillis Wheatley
Much initial response to PW
as a poet saw her as a freak, a curiosity, or a political argument. A typical reviewer found her work merely imitative, without endemial marks of solar fire or...
Occupation
Eliza Fletcher
This friendship was built on a shared interest in literature, in patronising the poor or socially oppressed who aspired to writing, in encouraging inoculation and in promoting Sunday schools. Eliza was interested particularly in the...
Publishing
Olaudah Equiano
Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably...
His De la littérature des Nègres in its original form reflects internationalism, anglophilia, and perhaps even proto-feminism. The title-page quotes Mary Robinson
. The roll of honour of white activists for abolition and racial equality...
Timeline
By September 1782: The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius...
Writing climate item
By September 1782
The Letters of the black Londoner Ignatius Sancho
were published two years after the author's death.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
52 (1782): 437
Carey, Brycchan. “’The extraordinary Negro’: Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-14.
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Carey, Brycchan. “’The extraordinary Negro’: Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
26
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-14.
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Texts
Sancho, Ignatius, and Joseph, MP Jekyll. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. Printed by J. Nichols and sold by J. Dodsley, 1782, 2 vols.
Sancho, Ignatius. The Letters of Ignatius Sancho. Editors Edwards, Paul and Polly T. Rewt, Edinburgh University Press, 1994.