![]() ![]() Ewan Clark bases his poetic version of the correspondence on this collection, bringing Sterne’s words to comment afresh upon a contemporary debate that was becoming even more pressing as the Abolitionist movement gained increasing momentum. Laurence Sterne, to his most intimate friends (1776), the exchange with Sancho promoted Sterne’s image as a model of compassionate humanity. Upon its publication in The letters of the late Rev. Sterne’s reply captures the pathos for which he was becoming increasingly famous, describing how upon receiving Sancho’s letter he ‘had been writing a tender tale of the sorrows of a friendless poor negro-girl, and my eyes had scarce done smarting with it’. In July 1766 Sancho wrote to Sterne, imploring him to apply his considerable ability for producing powerfully affecting prose to write against the slave trade. ![]() In this page from some of the only surviving handwritten letters, he. Kp Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African av Vincent Carretta. ![]() Ignatius Sancho was a former slave who described the horrors he had experienced in his Letters, published posthumously in 1782. Sancho was proud of his African descent and repeatedly emphasized that he was a black man. ![]()
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