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With @vanessachughes on @ABCClassic Drive to spill the triple T: Travel Tales & Tunes, just after the 6pm news. This week: Ignatius Sancho! First African to vote in the UK + first published composer there! Time travel with us to the 18th century & triple-step to his Minuet #11
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Portrait in this thread: Ignatius Sancho, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1768 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 62.2 cm, currently housed in the Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa @MBACanada
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+ Highlighting the widely repeated spurious accounts from Sancho& #39;s bio, a great text by @Brycchan Carey: ‘“The extraordinary Negro”: Ignatius Sancho, Joseph Jekyll, and the Problem of Biography’, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 26 (2003)https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤓" title="Nerd-Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Nerd-Gesicht">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📚" title="Bücher" aria-label="Emoji: Bücher"> https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2003.tb00257.x">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/1...
