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One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume not only connects the letters of Ignatius Sancho to their social and historical contexts but also highlights their cultural and aesthetic significance. Offering an interdisciplinary range of perspectives on Sancho and his letters from across literary, historical, and cultural studies, and authored by scholars, archivists, and performers alike, it provides the first authoritative, accessible resource focused exclusively on Sancho's life and writing. Building on established connections to abolitionism and the aesthetics of sentiment, it breaks new ground by considering Sancho's continuing significance for Black British society specifically, and UK literature and history generally.

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Nicole N. Aljoe is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She is co-Director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Mapping Black London, and Director of the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac. She is the author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709–1836 (2012) and co-editor of Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (2014), as well as A Literary History of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (2018). Kristina Huang is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She specializes in African diasporic literatures from the vantage point of the eighteenth-century transatlantic world. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, her work centers on historical representations of subaltern, enslaved, and minoritized lives and how those representations inform critical theory, literary study, and political practice. Her articles have appeared in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, European Romantic Fiction, and Studies in Romanticism.

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