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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... received more than £ 500 from the over 1200 subscribers and a fee paid by the booksellers for per- mission to publish a second edition . The first review of Letters appeared in the periodical A New Review ; with Literary Curiosities ...
... received amendment from no other hand ; points which would not be of easy investigation . The reviewers and commentators judged Sancho's Letters by the traditional standards of what Jefferson calls " the epistolary class " -the genre of ...
... received ; they were both good letters - and descriptions of things and places . ' And on 7 August 1775 , he jokingly chastises Lydia Leach for having flouted the rules of the genre : " I can never excuse in- tolerable scrawls — and I ...
... received as an emancipation proclamation , widely accepted to mean that a slave was free as soon as he or she set foot on English soil . Yet millions of Blacks in the British empire re- mained enslaved outside of England , and even in ...
... Montagu left Sancho a year's salary and an annuity of £ 30 . San- cho's widow , Anne , received more than £ 500 from the sale of his Letters . ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece to volume one of Sancho's Letters , engraved xxxviii A NOTE ON MONEY.