Who was Ignatius Sancho?

A painting of Ignatius Sancho. He is wearing traditional 18th century dress and looking to the left hand side of the image. He has dark hair tied behind him and is Black.

Sancho wrote that he was born in Africa but was captured and enslaved in Greenwich UK throughout his entire childhood. When he was 20 years old he liberated himself and escaped to Montagu House, Blackheath.

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