My Story: Ignatius Sancho is the extraordinarytrue story of a young boy's life: a slave, a servant,a business owner, a campaigner, a composer, a writer.Greenwich 1738, and 8-year-old Ignatius lives with three sisters.Not as a member of their family, but more or less a pet –a toy. He serves them breakfast, lunch and dinner, fetches andcarries, does their bidding and all without thanks or asmile. He lives with the constant possibility of being sentaway to a sugar plantation – to endure back-breaking workaway from everything and everyone he has ever known. When the threat of being sent back to the West Indies tobe enslaved on a plantation becomes suddenly all tooreal, Ignatius must escape and start to build a real and brilliantlife for himself.  an inspirational story based on real lifeperfect for anyone wanting to understand more about Britain'srole in the transatlantic slave trade an empowering and important read.  "I have to sit down. I need to wipe my eyes. Imagine, me, thelittle boy who slaved for the sisters and had to fight so hard tobe able to read and write, has become the first black man to havea say in who governs England."Experience history first-hand with My Story.