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Hardcover Ignatius Sancho and the British Abolitionist Movement, 1729-1786: Manhood, Race and Sensibility Book

ISBN: 3031374193

ISBN13: 9783031374197

Ignatius Sancho and the British Abolitionist Movement, 1729-1786: Manhood, Race and Sensibility

This book highlights the significant role played by Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-80), the first black man to vote in England, in the British abolitionist movement. Examining the letters of Sancho, and especially his correspondence with the influential novelist and preacher, Laurence Sterne, the author analyses the relationship between sensibility and antislavery in eighteenth-century Britain. The book demonstrates how Sancho navigated the bawdy, riotous...

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