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Who was the first known black Briton to vote in an election?

Professor Gretchen Gerzina explores the life of the butler Ignatius Sancho, who rose to the top of London's fashionable society in the late 18th and early 19th century. He was a composer, actor and writer and was the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election. Professor Gerzina speaks to historian Professor Brycchan Carey and novelist Steve Martin.

First broadcast on Britain's Black Past, 4 October 2016.

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