What is Ignatius Sancho?
{{Infobox person | name = Charles Ignatius Sancho | image = Ignatius Sancho, 1768.jpg | alt = | caption = Oil painting, 1768, by Thomas Gainsborough, National Gallery of Canada | birth_name = | birth_date = c. 1729 | birth_place = on a slave ship in the [[Middle Passage]], [[Atlantic Ocean]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1780|12|14|1729|}} | death_place = [[London]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] |spouse= Anne Osborne<ref name=king>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJfpAAAAMAAJ&q=Letters+of+Late+Ignatious+Sancho |title=Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters |author=King, Reyahn |publisher=National Portrait Gallery|location=London, UK|year=1997|page=17|isbn=9781855141926 }}</ref> | other_names = |children= Frances Joanna (1761–1815), Ann Alice (1763–1805), Elizabeth Bruce (1766–1837), Jonathan William (1768–1770), Lydia (1771–1776), Katherine Margaret (1773–1779), William Leach Osborne (1775–1810)<ref name=Brycchanweb>{{cite web |title=Ignatius Sancho's Friends and Family |author=Carey, Brycchan |url=http://www.brycchancarey.com/sancho/friends.htm#sterne |access-date=8 January 2013 }}</ref><ref name=EdwardsRewt>{{cite book |title=The Letters of Ignatius Sancho |editor-last1=Edwards |editor-first1=Paul Geoffrey|editor2=Polly Rewt |publisher=University of Edinburgh Press |location=Edinburgh |year=1994}}</ref> | known_for = influence over abolitionists, his published correspondence | occupation = writer, composer | signature = Ignatius Sancho Signature.svg }} '''Ignatius Sancho''' was an [[African]] born around 1729 on a [[slave ship]]. Towards the end of his extraordinary life, he became a [[British]] [[citizen]] and was eligible to vote in the parliamentary election of 1774, and then again in 1780. The details of his early life are not certain. He was born on a slave ship crossing the [[Atlantic]]. The ship went to the Spanish colonies in [[Central America]]. His parents did not survive long, and he became orphaned. His owner to