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Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) was a British abolitionist, writer and composer. Born on a slave ship in the Atlantic, Sancho was sold into slavery in the Spanish colony of New Granada.
- First person of African descent to vote in a British general election; influence on abolitionism
- Charles Ignatius Sancho, c. 1729, Atlantic Ocean
- Anne Osborne
Quadro pintado por Thomas Gainsborough, por volta de 1768 . Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 — Londres, 14 de dezembro de 1780) foi um compositor, ator e escritor do Reino Unido. Ele é o primeiro britânico de origem africana a votar numa eleição na Inglaterra.
Ignatius Sancho was a Black British writer and musician who was deeply engaged with the visual and performing arts as a means for calling attention to the inhumanity and hypocrisy of discrimination, racism, and the enslavement of Black people in London and across the British empire.
Learn about Ignatius Sancho, a slave abolitionist, composer, writer and actor, who was buried in the Broadway Chapel yard in 1780. Find out about his life, his letters, his portrait and his memorial tablet in St Margaret's church.
- Writer,Musician,Playwright,Abolitionist
Ignatius Sancho is best known today as the author of an extensive correspondence. While a few of his letters were published during his lifetime, most were assembled and published posthumously by a group of his friends as Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (1782).
Learn about the life of British composer, actor and writer. Written by Patrick Vernon. Ignatius Sancho is said to have been born in 1729 on board a slave ship that was sailing from Guinea to...
Learn about Ignatius Sancho, a former slave who became a composer, a voter and an abolitionist in England. Discover how his letters, music and poetry influenced the movement to end slavery across the Atlantic.
