William Sancho and the possibilities of Black British lives in late Georgian Britain / Oliver Ayers, Liberty Collard

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayers, Oliver, author.

Collard, Liberty, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections

Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections, 2632-5578

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sancho, William, 1775-1810.

Sancho, William.

Black people--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Black people.

Black people--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain--History--George III, 1760-1820.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"William Sancho was the son of Ignatius Sancho, one of the eighteenth century's most important Black Britons. In contrast to his father, however, William's life has never been fully explored. This Element builds a new evidential trail to uncover a multifaceted career that saw the younger Sancho undertake an apprenticeship and become a bookseller, rate-paying citizen and well-connected man about town. Sancho also contributed to the early vaccination movement and the campaign against slavery. Remarkable as elements of it were, Sancho's story makes sound historical sense for someone so deeply embedded within the country's burgeoning entrepreneurial, literate, male-dominated, metropolitan and imperially-focused public sphere. Sancho was a Black man who lived a distinctly 'British' life: his importance stands on its own terms, but also alters our perspectives of what these two historical labels have traditionally implied, and the experiences that were possible as part of them"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Sancho’s heir : the early literary and historical lives of William Sancho

The bookbinder’s apprentice

The bookseller at the mews gate

Connections and competition during the birth of modern medicine

Anti-slavery abroad and at home

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 29, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Ayers, Oliver William Sancho and the possibilities of Black British lives in late Georgian Britain

ISBN:

9781009625463

1009625462

9781009625487

1009625489

OCLC:

1581572430

Publisher Number:

CIPO000355757

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license