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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.
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.
Because of his financially-independent householder status, Ignatius was eligible to vote and in 1774, Sancho became the first black person of African origin to vote in parliamentary elections in Britain, voting twice in 1774 and again on the year of his death in 1780.
Apr 11, 2023 · THE SECRET DIARIES OF CHARLES IGNATIUS SANCHO, by Paterson Joseph. The privations and polymathy that marked the life of Charles Ignatius Sancho (1729?-80) make him an obvious subject for...
Sep 20, 2019 · When these letters were published by an editor two years after his death, Ignatius Sancho posthumously became the first black Briton to publish correspondence.
Introducing Ignatius Sancho. 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.
