Charles Ignatius Sancho c1729–1780
How one voter blazed a trail 250 years ago
BRITISH ELECTIONS
Charles Ignatius Sancho made history in 1774 as the first person of African descent to vote in a British election.
Born on a slave ship crossing the Atlantic, on which both his parents died, Sancho was sold and brought to London as a toddler, before...
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