This is a national appeal for your help in the effort to save one of this country’s most important Black History sites — an effort that has now reached a...
Read moreWith unearthing of infamous jail, Richmond confronts its slave past
The place called Lumpkin’s Slave Jail was indeed a jail, but it was much more than that. It was a holding pen for human chattel. In Richmond’s Shockoe...
Read moreRichmond slave jail’s foundation found
With young black men used as bait, dogs were trained to track and pursue runaway slaves in the cobblestone courtyard of a Richmond slave jail. Hidden for more than a...
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