In the Montagu home, Sancho gained access to books and a busy cultural life. By 1749, he was working for Lord Montagu, an advocate of Black social advancement through education. Reportedly born into slavery and orphaned as a young boy, Sancho grew up in the London home of three sisters who denied him a formal education. Printed in the 1802 edition of the ‘Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African.’ Ignatius Sancho, in an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after a portrait by Thomas Gainsborough. 1729–1780) subtly but unmistakably inscribed anti-racist messages in his music. Long before Lizzo, the Black British composer, writer, butler, and shopkeeper Ignatius Sancho (ca. Indeed, history reveals numerous precedents. “History is cool, y’all,” she shouted exuberantly from the stage, as she showed the capacity of music, even music without words, to convey anti-racist meaning. Lizzo asserted her place in that tradition last fall, when she played a crystal flute built in 1813 for James Madison, a slaveholder, prompting a predictable backlash.
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