Literature · Music · Abolitionism · Black British History
Ignatius Sancho
c. 1729 – 1780
Sancho became a prominent eighteenth-century Black British writer, composer and intellectual whose correspondence and public life became important evidence of Black participation in British cultural and political society.
•Prominent 18th-century Black British writer
•composer and intellectual
•Important figure for the Black British intellectual tradition before nineteenth-century abolitionism