Legacies of Enslavement

Rediscovering Anna Maria Vassa’s grave

29 October 2025

Close-up of Anna Maria Vassa’s gravestone in Chesterton churchyard, showing its weathered inscription. — The footstone marking the grave of Anna Maria Vassa, inscribed ‘A M V / 1797’, St Andrew’s Churchyard, Chesterton. Image Credit: Victoria Avery.

Read the blog by by Vicky Avery, Keeper, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, at the Fitzwilliam Museum, on the University of Cambridge Museums Collections in Action website.