page_title: Sambo's Grave
section_title: The site today
hierarchical_section_title: Sambo's Grave / The site today
caption_attribution_description: English: The grave of a slave boy who died at Sunderland Point near Lancaster in the late 18th century
context_page_description: Sambo's Grave is the burial site of a dark-skinned cabin boy or slave, on unconsecrated ground in a field near the small village of Sunderland Point, near Heysham and Overton, Lancashire, North West England. Sunderland Point was a port, serving cotton, sugar and slave ships from the West Indies and North America, which declined after Glasson Dock was opened in 1787. It is a very small community only accessible via a narrow road, which crosses a salt marsh and is cut off at high tide.
context_section_description: Today, official signposts on Sunderland Point define the grave and locality as a tourist attraction and the grave almost always bears flowers or stones painted by local children. In 2019 the grave was enclosed by a low stone wall.
caption: Sambo's Grave, 2020
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