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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... honest Sancho , " " his sooty correspondent , " who " though black as Othello has a heart as humanized as any of the fairest about St. James's , " and the magazine predicted that publication of the letter in Sterne's collection would ...
... honest and very ingenious African . The occasion which then offered for introducing his name into the Review , was his correspondence with the celebrated Sterne ; whose Letters were the subject of the article to which we refer . The ...
Ignatius Sancho Vincent Carretta. appear in every place . A Letter should wear an honest , chearful Countenance , like one who truly esteems , and is glad to see his Friend ; and not look like a Fop admiring his own Dress , and seemingly ...
... honest to yourself . " Of course , attempts to make prose sound informal and more " conversable " could draw complaints from more formally in- clined critics , like those who criticized Sancho's lack of " cor- rectness , " especially ...
... honesty and with Religion for its companion - would be a blessing to every shore it touched at . Sancho's stance of objectivity enables him to criticize as well the complicity of some Africans in the slave trade , though the ob- jective ...