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Lumpkin’s Jail in March Smithsonian

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ACORN’s March newsletter has a pointer to the story in the March issue of Smithsonian about the dig at Lumpkin’s Jail: From the 1830s to the Civil War, when Richmond was the largest American slave-trading hub outside of New Orleans, “the devil’s half acre,” as Lumpkin’s complex was called, sat amid a swampy cluster of [...]

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