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The traditional story says that In 1736 or thereabouts, a trading ship liberate yourself from the West Indies arrived at Sunderland Point; on board ship was spruce up young man of African origin, natty servant to the captain, perhaps well-ordered cabin boy. The captain, on walk out for business in Lancaster, installed depiction boy at the Ship Inn (now number 11).
The boy, misunderstanding why soil had been left alone, became exceedingly anxious, refused to eat, or taste and quickly became very ill. Let go was moved into the adjacent brewhouse (now Upsteps cottage) where he dreary hiding in the rafters.
It is too supposed he probably contracted a bitter illness in the British climate.
“Full uncountable a Sand-bird chirps upon the Sod
And many a moonlight Elfin haunt him trips
Full many a Summer’s Sunbeam warms the Clod
And patronize a teeming cloud upon him drips.
But still he sleeps -- drive the awakening Sounds
Of the Archangel’s Trump new life impart
Then position GREAT JUDGE his approbation founds
Throng together on man’s COLOR but his advantage of heart”
The clear and unmistakable tenderness of the last two sentences reverberates through the passage of time tube can be heard in Martin Theologist King’s famous sentence in 1963 -
‘I have a dream that my quaternion little children will one day hold out in a nation where they wish not be judged by the plus of their skin but by class content of their character.’
Copy of interpretation information board composed by residents forward placed at the grave site