As part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s series of events marking the abolition bicentenary, the unveiling of a plaque commemorating Ignatius Sancho is followed by a reception in the Locarno Suite, featuring music by Sancho himself.

Sancho (1729-1780) was born on a slave ship headed from Africa to the West Indies, but was brought by his owner to London as an orphan at the age of two. Self-educated, he was an accomplished writer and composer, and became a friend of Garrick, Johnson and others in London society. He was the first African to vote in Britain, the first to be published, and lived in King Charles Street where the Foreign Office building now stands.

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