Ignatius Sancho: Links and Web Resources

On this page are links to web resources either about or relevant to Ignatius Sancho. It is the nature of the web to change rapidly and so I fear that this section will always be rather out of date. Please contact me if you know of any links which can be added here or if any of the links you follow do not function as promised. Good Sancho material on the web appears to be rather limited at present, but the following may be useful.

• Full E-text of Sancho's Letters
  • Reliable e-text of volume 1 of Sancho's Letters
  • Reliable e-text of volume 2 of Sancho's Letters

• Other E-texts
  • Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on Sancho and slavery can be found on many websites. One example that worked for me was the University of Groningen Hypertext of American History
  • Some of Sancho's letters can be found at Joanna Lipking's Sancho page at Northwestern University

• Books and Publishers
  • The Bookshop Books on Sancho and related topics
  • Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho: An African, ed., Vincent Carretta, (London: Penguin, 1998). Details can be found at the Penguin Classics Website , but as the site will not offer a URL to individual pages (!?) you will have to enter 'sancho' in the search box.
  • Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, ed., Reyahn King, (London: National Portrait Gallery, 1997), Details can be viewed at the National Portrait Gallery website.
  • African British Writing in the Eighteenth Century: the Politics of Race and Reason, Helena Woodard, (Westport, Conn, Greenwood Press, 1999). A full description Details can be viewed at the Greenwood Press Website.
  • Bibliography of Sancho Studies A page on this website.

• Greenwich and Westminster:
  • Greenwich Street Map Centred on the Royal Naval Hospital.
  • Westminster Local and Visitor Information
  • Westminster Street Map centred on Sancho's shop in Charles Street, now King Charles St.

• Miscellaneous
  • Ignatius Sancho: Sensibility and Abolition. Details of the conference held at Queen Mary and Westfield College in March 1999.
  • The African Music Page at the British Library has some information on Sancho and includes an image of Bertolozzi's engraving of Gainsborough's portrait.
  • Gainsborough's portrait of Sancho at The National Gallery of Canada.
  • Blacknet Sancho Page is a page dedicated to Sancho as part of Blacknet's history pages.
  • Jack Lynch's Eighteenth-Century Page provides excellent general information and links on eighteenth-century literature, history and culture.
  • A Select Bibliography of Ignatius Sancho by Brycchan Carey can be found at the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies C18 Bibliographies Online website.