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# Ignatius Sancho at King Charles Street Standing before the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on King Charles Street, you're standing at the threshold of where Ignatius Sancho established his grocery shop—a modest but revolutionary venture for an African man in 18th-century London. Between the 1770s a...

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Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street

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Ignatius Sancho 1729-1780 writer, symbol of humanity of Africans lived and had a grocery shop near this site