The gravestone of a daughter of a former slave that was missing from Norwich for decades will now be returned to the Norwichtown Burying Ground.
The headstone of Dezenah Zibbere, who died aged 11 in 1781, will be returned to her plot, beside the grave of her sister, during a ceremony on Saturday at 1 p.m. The ceremony will then continue at the First Congregational Church, by the Norwichtown Green, Norwich City Historian Dale Plummer said.
While the event marks the formal return of a historic artifact, it also recognizes Norwich’s Black history, and affirms that everyone has “inherent worth and dignity, and should be treated as such,” Rev. Dianne Daniels, consulting minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Storrs and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Norwich, said…