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A small volume lies open on a desk revealing a sketch of Ignatius Sancho opposite text reading, "Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African, to which are Prefixed, Memoirs of his Life, by Joseph Jekyll"

The Rosenbach’s copy of Ignatius Sancho’s Letters is a remarkable artifact
of resilience in the face of suffering, a testament to the horrors of human
trafficking, and an important primary source documenting the global history
of enslavement in the 1700s.

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