Pebbles the river and bridge

Once upon a time there lived a girl named Grace. She lived with her mother and father who cut wood from the huge neighbouring forest to build plantations. So the forest was not bigger than a wood. Now Grace was sixteen many Caribbean and African slaves were being bought to plant and harvest for the rest of their days. She felt sorry for them so she decided to do something but what?

When Grace was twenty two she has a plan this is how it happened. She was walking along the river when she came to a patch pebbles. Grace picked one up and kept it. Then she came to a bridge but as she reached the edge she and dropped the pebble off the edge. She fetched her net and fished it out this taught Grace there’s always a way.


Grace ran home and opened her diary and wrote down her plan this is what she wrote.

I will go and buy some slaves but then I get home I take their chains and say help me dig a hole under the river then break the bridge and fill the hole with mud. So she bought and un-chained slaves

It took twenty days a twenty nights before it was finished as they sang this song may freedom come soon in this wonderful moon we sing this song because things could go wrong on this starry starry Night. When the hole was finished Grace told all the slaves that thirty slaves would leave each night.
Then when the slaves went though she would fill the hole with stones and cover it with mud. Her parent’s thought they were going mad each day they had less slaves. Graces plan went very well the slaves were honoured her and made her queen and named their city after her. For many years after she died slaves told this story.

And that was the story of the pebbles the river and the bridge.