{"id":61461,"date":"2022-04-14T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61461"},"modified":"2022-04-14T22:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:12:35","slug":"the-devils-half-acre-the-untold-story-of-how-one-woman-liberated-the-souths-most-notorious-slave-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61461","title":{"rendered":"The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Seal Press<\/a> (an imprint of Basic Books<\/a>)
2022-04-12
352 pages
Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781541675636
eBook ISBN-13: 9781541675629
Audiobook ISBN-13: 9781549193354<\/p>\n

Kristen Green<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation\u2019s first HBCUs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In The Devil\u2019s Half Acre<\/em>, New\u202fYork\u202fTimes<\/em> bestselling author Kristen Green\u202fdraws\u202fon years of research\u202fto tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young\u202fMary Lumpkin, an\u202fenslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation\u202ffor thousands.\u202fShe was forced to have the children of a brutal\u202fslave trader and live on the premises of his slave jail, known as the \u201cDevil\u2019s Half Acre<\/a>.\u201d When she inherited the jail after the death of her slaveholder, she transformed it into \u201cGod\u2019s Half Acre,\u201d a school where Black men could fulfill their dreams. It still exists today as Virginia Union University<\/a>, one of America\u2019s first Historically Black Colleges and Universities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A sweeping narrative of a life in the margins of the American slave trade, The Devil\u2019s Half Acre<\/em> brings Mary Lumpkin into the light. This is the story of the resilience of a woman on the path to freedom, her historic contributions, and her enduring legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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