There are a number of events this week to commemorate Slavery Remembrance Day
Liverpool's first recorded black resident - an enslaved man - is remembered by a stone monument in a city centre church yard.
Buried in the churchyard of Liverpool Parish Church on October 1 that year, little else is known about him. A monument for Liverpool's first recorded black resident was finally unveiled in 2020 - after historian Laurence Westgaph campaigned for Abell to be suitably commemorated.
At the time, Liverpool was a tiny market town with a population of approximately 10,000 people. But during the 18th century, the city was also part of the slave trade "triangle" with West Africa, America and the West Indies. Liverpool Rector, Reverend Canon Dr Crispin Pailing, previously told the ECHO the tribute to Abell's life at St Nicholas' Church, and the memorial acknowledging his death in this city, is an important part of Liverpool coming to terms with the realities of its past.
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