The Extraordinary Life of Charles Ignatius Sancho, with Paterson Joseph
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- This event took place on 14 October 2022. The information below is correct as of the publication date.
Re-imagining the maverick Black writer and composer in 18th-century London.
Acclaimed British actor Paterson Joseph draws from his highly-anticipated debut novel to tell the extraordinary story of 18th-century writer, abolitionist and composer Charles Ignatius Sancho. Charles’s story began with his birth on board a slave ship in c.1729, before being orphaned and sold into slavery.
Transported across the Atlantic to Britain at the age of two, Sancho spent his childhood and teens in the household of three English sisters, before escaping enslavement and developing a career as a businessman, writer and composer who sat at the very heart of Georgian London - becoming the first Black person to vote in Britain and leading the fight to end slavery.
Beginning with a dramatic reading from his new book, Paterson Joseph shares Charles Ignatius Sancho’s incredible life story and explores what it meant to be a Black Briton living at this time, and how historical fiction can help to breathe fresh life into real historical figures. Paterson will be talking to author Catherine Johnson.
Paterson Joseph is a beloved British actor and writer. Recently seen on Vigil and Noughts and Crosses, he has also starred in Peep Show and Law & Order UK and he plays Arthur Slugworth in the forthcoming Wonka movie. The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho is his debut novel.
Catherine Johnson has written over 20 books for young readers and has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal as well as winning awards for Historical Fiction. She also writes for TV, including adapting Miranda Kaufmann's Black Tudors, as well as for film, radio and video games. Her latest book is Journey Back to Freedom, a book for young readers about the life of Olaudah Equiano.
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Love this book!!!! Loved Charles Ignatius from when I first learned of him around 7 years ago. Thank you Paterson Joseph for being that person to bring his story alive like no other has before!
This book is a touchstone in the Sancho story/history.
Juan Latino (born Juan de Sessa; Ethiopia c. 1518 - Granada, c. 1594/1597) was a Spanish professor of Ethiopian descent at the University of Granada during the sixteenth century. He could be considered the first African who studied at a European university and who reached a professorship on Grammar and Latin Language at the University of Granada.
I wonder if the new novel will mention that in 1774 he established himself as a grocer and sold tobacco, cotton and other products from the plantations....... all produced by his kinsmen. So he profited from slry. If there is a statue it ought to be pulled down.
John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, set up an orphanage and gave financial assistance to another boy of similar tincture. His wife was a Churchill and gave Charles a small fortune.
It literally does lol.
@@joshuawaring4180 Except the author fails to condemn him, but makes excuses - it's okay to be involved in slave related commerce if you are black, but if you are white then you are cancelled!
He did but at that time, he had to for survival and long game for slavery abolishment. Only so much a black man can do during the 18th century.
@@vincentwilliams4641 The problem is that if you say that about one person, you have say that about everyone of that era
@@NickThomas-uz6lgYour lack of understanding is stunning.