Tag: Shockoe Bottom

  • She was raped by the owner of a notorious slave jail. Later, she inherited it. The Washington Post 2020-02-01 Sydney Trent, Local enterprise reporter An engraving print of the Lumpkin Slave Jail, from Corey’s “A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary.” (City of Richmond) Robert Lumpkin was one of the South’s most prolific and brutal…