Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African: To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life

Sancho, Ignatius · 1780

Transcriber's note: Italic font is indicated by _underscores_. Small upper-case letters are indicated by +plus signs+. THE Editor of these Letters thinks proper to obviate an objection, which she finds has already been suggested, that they were originally written with a view to publication. She declares, therefore, that no such idea was ever expressed by Mr. Sancho; and that not a single letter is here printed from any duplicate preserved by himself, but all have been collected from the various friends to whom they were addressed. Her motives for laying them before the publick were, the desire of shewing that an untutored African may possess abilities equal to an European; and the still s…

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