Ignatius Sancho

My Story: Ignatius Sancho is the extraordinary true story of a youngboy's journey from slave to abolitionist.Greenwich 1738, and eight-year-old Ignatius lives with three sisters.He fetches and carries, does their bidding and all without thanksor a smile. Ignatius must escape and start to build a realand brilliant life for himself.

My Story: Ignatius Sancho is the extraordinarytrue story of a young boy's life: a slave, a servant,a business owner, a campaigner, a composer, a writer.Greenwich 1738, and eight-year-old Ignatius lives with three sisters.Not as a member of their family, but more or less a pet –a toy. He serves them breakfast, lunch and dinner, fetchesand carries, does their bidding and all without thanks ora smile. He lives with the constant possibility of beingsent away to a sugar plantation – to endure back-breakingwork away from everything and everyone he has ever known.When the threat of being sent back to the West Indies tobe enslaved on a plantation becomes suddenly all tooreal, Ignatius must escape and start to build a real and brilliantlife for himself.an inspirational story based on real lifeperfect for anyone wanting to understand more about Britain'srole in the transatlantic slave tradean empowering and important read."I have to sit down. I need to wipe my eyes. Imagine, me, thelittle boy who slaved for the sisters and had to fight so hard tobe able to read and write, has become the first black man to havea say in who governs England."Experience history first-hand with My Story.

Weight: 116g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781407199573