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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.
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.
Writer, Musician, Playwright and Abolitionist. Ignatius Sancho, composer, writer, slave abolitionist and actor, died on 14th December 1780 and was buried on 17th December in the churchyard of the Broadway, or New, Chapel, which was an overflow burial area for the parish of St Margaret's Westminster. All the gravestones in the Broadway Chapel ...
- Writer,Musician,Playwright,Abolitionist
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...
Ignatius Sancho: The Composer. Whilst Ignatius Sancho spent most of his life in England, his work, letters and exposure to the US creates the general consensus that Sancho is one of many who helped abolish Slavery across the Atlantic. Written by History Contributor 04/10/2021. 2 comments.
Ignatius Sancho, 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough. According to his contemporary biographer, Joseph Jekyll, Sancho was born circa 1729 aboard a slave ship crossing the Middle Passage. His mother died of disease, and his father committed suicide so that he would not have to endure slavery. Sancho was purchased by three sisters living in Greenwich ...
13 de feb. de 2008 · Ignatius Sancho is best known for his letters about slavery. He sent missives to leading novelists describing himself as a black person and a former slave. He then urged the novelists to use the writings to condemn slavery in the British West Indies. Besides his political involvement, Sancho, an amateur composer, published his own music.
