Gravestone to Joseph Freeman, New London Road Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. Gravestone.

Gravestone to Joseph Freeman, New London Road Cemetery

WRENN ID
over-gateway-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chelmsford
Country
England
Type
Gravestone
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Gravestone to Joseph Freeman, who liberated himself from enslavement in New Orleans, and who died in Chelmsford in 1875.

DESCRIPTION: a rectangular gravestone with a moulded triangular top. The inscription reads: ‘ERECTED / by his Christian friends / to the memory of / JOSEPH / once a slave in New Orleans / who escaped to England and / became also a FREE MAN / in Christ / He was employed for several years / at the London Road Iron Works / until his death at the age of 45 / on the 28th Novr 1875 / Reader! Have you been made free / from the slavery of sin’.

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