Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Ignatius Sancho: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text A Note on Money
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of his Life. Volume I Volume II
Appendix A: Ignatius Sancho’s Family
Appendix B: Ignatius Sancho’s Principal Correspondents
Appendix C: List of Letters
Appendix D: Laurence Sterne’s Correspondence with Ignatius Sancho
- Sancho to Sterne [21 July 1766]
- Sterne to Sancho [27 July 1766]
- Sterne to Sancho [16 May 1767]
- Sterne to Sancho [30 June 1767]
Appendix E: Ignatius Sancho’s Autograph Letters
- Sancho to William Stevenson (26 November 1776)
- Sancho to William Stevenson (24 October 1777)
- Sancho to William Stevenson (22 October 1778)
- Sancho to William Stevenson (14 November 1778)
- Sancho to Reverend Seth Ellis Stevenson (5 December 1778)
- Sancho to William Stevenson (5 December 1778)
- Sancho to William Stevenson (14 December 1778)
- Sancho to (presumably) William Stevenson (19 December 1778)
- Sancho to Reverend Seth Ellis Stevenson (4 January 1779)
- Sancho to Reverend Seth Ellis Stevenson (14 January 1779)
- Sancho to William Stevenson (11 March 1779)
- Sancho to (presumably) William Stevenson (1 April 1779)
- Sancho to William Stevenson (16 November 1779)
- Sancho to William Stevenson (4 January 1780)
- Sancho to (presumably) William Stevenson (18 August 1780)
Appendix F: Eighteenth-Century References to Ignatius Sancho, and Responses to Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African
- The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal (November 1775)
- The Gentleman’s Magazine: and Historical Chronicle (January 1776)
- The Public Advertiser (4 June 1778)
- Edmund Rack (20 April 1779)
- A Manuscript Letter Dated 17 September 1779 from the Aspiring Author George Cumberland to His Brother Richard Dennison Cumberland, Vicar of Driffield in Gloucester County, Attests to Sancho’s Reputation as a Literary Critic (17 September 1779)
- Ewan Clark, Miscellaneous Poems, By Mr. Ewan Clark (1779)
- John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and His Times (1829)
- The Gazeteer, and New Daily Advertiser (15 December 1780)
- Anthony Highmore, Jr., “Epistle to Mr. J. H—, on the Death of his justly Lamented Friend, Ignatius Sancho” (1780-82)
- The Gentleman’s Magazine: and Historical Chronicle (April 1781)
- The Gentleman’s Magazine: and Historical Chronicle (May 1781)
- The Public Advertiser (9 August 1782)
- William Whitehead, British Poet Laureate Since 1757, in an August 1782 Letter to George Simon Harcourt, second Earl Harcourt (August 1782)
- A New Review; with Literary Curiosities, and Literary Intelligence (1782)
- The Gentleman’s Magazine (September 1782)
- The European Magazine and London Review (September 1782)
- The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1782 (1783)
- John Williams, Thoughts on the Origin, and on the Most Rational and Natural Method of Teaching Languages: with Some Observations on the Necessity of One Universal Language for All Works of Science (1783)
- The Monthly Review: or, Literary Journal (December 1783)
- The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature (January 1784)
- Town and Country Magazine, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment (February 1784)
- Elkanah Watson, Men and Times of the Revolution; or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson. Including Journals of Travels in Europe and America, from 1777 to 1842 (1856)
- George Gregory, Essays Historical and Moral (1785)
- Joseph Woods, Thoughts on the Slavery of the Negroes (1784)
- James Tobin, Cursory Remarks upon the Reverend Mr. Ramsay’s Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the Sugar Colonies. By a Friend of the West India Colonies, and their Inhabitants (1785)
- Thomas Clarkson, An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was honoured with the first Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785 (1786)
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)
- Thomas Cooper, Letters on the Slave Trade: First Published in Wheeler’s Manchester Chronicle; and since Re-printed with Additions and Alterations (1787)
- “Civis,” The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser (5 February 1788)
- “Civis,” The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser (19 August 1788)
- The Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette (4 December 1788)
- William Mason, An Occasional Discourse, Preached in the Cathedral of St. Peter in York, January 27, 1788, on the Subject of the African Slave-Trade (1788)
- Peter Peckard, Am I not a Man and a Brother? (1788)
- Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, A Critical Examination of the Marquis de Chatellux’s Travels in North America ... Principally Intended as a Refutation of his Opinions Concerning the Quakers, the Negroes, the People, and Mankind (1788)
- The County Magazine, for the Years 1786 and 1787 (1788)
- “Clericus,” The Country Curate; or, Letters from Clericus to Benevolus (1788)
- William Dickson, Letters on Slavery (1789)
- Richard Nisbet, The Capacity of Negroes for Religious and Moral Improvement Considered (1789)
- Thomas Burgess, Considerations on the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade, upon Grounds of Natural, Religious, and Political Duty (1789)
- Fortescue; or, The Soldier’s Reward: A Characteristic Novel (1789)
- Elizabeth Bentley, from “On the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade. July, 1789,” in Genuine Poetical Compositions, on Various Subjects (1791)
- Clara Reeve, Plans of Education; with Remarks on the Systems of Other Writers. In a Series of Letters between Mrs. Darnford and Her Friends (1792)
- Alexander Chalmers, A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical, Critical, and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation of the World (1795)
- John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796)
- William Stevenson in John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1815)
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