Downtown
Second meeting on the Lumpkin’s Slave Jail Site this Wednesday
A chance for your voice to be heard.
From Lumpkin’s Slave Jail Site Project website:
Second Community Engagement Meeting
JULY 12, 2017
The Lumpkin’s Slave Jail Site/Devil’s Half Acre Project is underway. Please join us for the SECOND community engagement meeting.
5:30-8:00 PM
The Bon Secours Washington Redskins Training Center
Second Floor
2401 West Leigh Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220
To learn more about the site there is this 2009 Smithsonian article which offers a quick summary or this eleven page PDF by Richmond Slave Trail Commission.
Excerpt from the Slave Trail Commission’s paper:
Here he was destined to suffer, for four months, such revolting treatment as the vilest felons never undergo, and such as only revengeful slaveholders can inflict. The place of his confinement was a room only six or eight feet square, in the upper story of the jail, which was accessible only through a trap-door. He was allowed neither bed nor air; a rude bench fastened against the wall and a single, coarse blanket were the only means of repose.
