Nicole N. Aljoe is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She is co-Director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Mapping Black London, and Director of the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac. She is the author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709–1836 (2012) and co-editor of Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (2014), as well as A Literary History of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (2018). Kristina Huang is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She specializes in African diasporic literatures from the vantage point of the eighteenth-century transatlantic world. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, her work centers on historical representations of subaltern, enslaved, and minoritized lives and how those representations inform critical theory, literary study, and political practice. Her articles have appeared in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, European Romantic Fiction, and Studies in Romanticism.

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• Introduction Kristina Huang and Nicole N. Aljoe; Part I. Archival Contexts and Networks: 1. Joseph Jekyll's 'Life of Ignatius Sanch' Brycchan Carey; 2. Sancho and his family Montaz Marché; 3. Ignatius Sancho's London Oliver Ayers; 4. Sancho and the Montagu family Crispin Powell; 5. Sancho's network of subscribers Lawrence Evalyn; 6. Sancho's correspondents Vincent Carretta; Part II. Social Contexts: 7. Ignatius Sancho, sentiment, and 'African sensibility' Markman Ellis; 8. Abolition and Sancho Sören Hammerschmidt; 9. Sancho's pluralistic afterlife David Mark Diamond; 10. Sancho's humor Amit Yahav; Part III. Performance, Visual Culture, and the Afterlives: 11. A social pursuit: music in the life of Ignatius Sancho Devin Leigh; 12. Ignatius Sancho and the theater Atesede Makonnen; 13. Ignatius Sancho and visual culture Charlotte Grant; 14. Sancho: on belonging Paterson Joseph; Appendices; Index.