SOURCE: Brown, Lloyd. Review of Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, An African, to which are prefixed Memoirs of His Life by Joseph Jekyll. Eighteenth-Century Studies3 (spring 1970): 415-19.

In the following review of Paul Edwards' 1968 reprint edition of Sancho's Letters, Brown claims that Sancho's assimilation into European culture was not as complete as Edwards indicates and that the writer was aware of his status as an outsider and alien despite the fact that his background and frame of reference were essentially European.

In his biographical essay on Ignatius Sancho, Jekyll is at some pains to depreciate his own undertaking: “Of a Negro, a Butler, and a Grocer, there are but slender anecdotes to animate the page of the biographer.” Jekyll is too modest. His subject was likely to attract considerable attention in eighteenth-century England, for the career of Ignatius Sancho did not wholly conform with the popular image...