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Lumpkin's Jail, also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a slave breeding farm, [1] as well as a holding facility, or slave jail, located in Richmond, Virginia, just three blocks from the state capitol building. More than five dozen firms traded in enslaved human beings within blocks of Richmond's Wall Street (now 15th Street) between 14th ...
In 1866 Robert died and Mary inherited Lumpkin's Jail, as well as properties in Richmond; Huntsville, Alabama; and Philadelphia; she was named the executor of his will. [1] [5] She leased the jail property in 1867 to Nathaniel Colver, who used it to establish the Richmond Theological School for Freedmen (now Virginia Union University). The ...
In 2006, archaeological excavations were begun on the former site of Lumpkin's Jail. [6] Nearby, located at 15th and E Broad St., is the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground, [7] [8] [9] long used as a commercial parking lot, most recently by Virginia Commonwealth University, a state institution. It was reclaimed in 2011 after a decade-long ...
Historically, it is the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground, that was the active municipal burial ground for the city of Richmond for African-Americans during the time that Lumpkin's Jail was in operation. But physically, it is the older African Burial Ground in Shockoe Bottom (which was closed in 1816) that is located next to Lumpkin's Slave Jail.
Dandridge was arrested for a felony probation violation, according to NBC 12. The Richmond Sheriff's Office has commenced a criminal investigation. The medical examiner said his cause of death was pending. Jail or Agency: Richmond City Jail; State: Virginia; Date arrested or booked: 3/1/2016; Date of death: 6/21/2016; Age at death: 26; Sources ...
Beginning in 1867, Colver Institute was housed in a building long known as Lumpkin's Jail, a former "slave jail" owned by Mary Ann Lumpkin, the African-American widow of the deceased white owner. It became Richmond Theological Institute (formerly Colver) and joined with Wayland Seminary of Washington in 1899 to form Virginia Union University at ...
Aug. 22—ASHLAND — A youth worker at a local juvenile center has been federally indicted for allegedly breaking a 15-year-old's arm during an improper restraint hold and falsifying records ...
Of course, that’s easier said than done in a society with so many problems and a jail with a capacity for 1,100 inmates that this month held more than 1,000, where mental health issues and ...