Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an AfricanPenguin, 1998 - Počet stran: 336 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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... Meheux , an amateur writer and artist , and Julius Soubise , servant of the duchess of Queensberry and man - about - town . Sancho's relationship with Meheux makes him the only known Black patron of an aspiring White artist during the ...
... Meheux , outside the Letters . Although Stevenson tells us that he had " often witnessed [ San- cho's ] patient forebearance , when the passing vulgar have given vent to their prejudices against his ebon complexion , his African ...
... Meheux invoked the example of Sancho's obvious humanity in his argument against a published call for the castration of Blacks who had fathered children with White women . Sancho's comments in his letters on slavery and race may strike ...
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