Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

From the window of a Westminster grocery, a gout-ridden shopkeeper watches the Gordon rioters go by with their torches and sits down the same night to tell a friend exactly what he saw. Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship in the Atlantic and carried to England as an infant, where the household that owned him withheld reading on the theory that ignorance keeps a servant obedient, and named him for Cervantes's squire as a joke about his shape.