Title: Sancho
Description: In this play, Charles Ignatius Sancho--born on a slave ship in 1729, later becoming the fellow actor and friend of David Garrick and the first black person of African origin to vote in Britain--recounts his life story in monologue as his portrait is painted by Thomas Gainsborough.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, general, Drama
People: Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780)