The Devil’s Half Acre | Hidden History Shorts with Brian Bullock

In this episode of Hidden History Shorts with Brian Bullock, learn about Lumpkin’s Jail, also known as “the Devil’s half acre.” This holding facility, or slave jail was located 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 and 18th Streets between the 1830s and the end of the American Civil War. #history #richmond #virginia #lumpkin #robertlumpkin #slave #slavery

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WOW! See, so much history still not known! Our stories are what God cares about! We learn from stories and we need more real stories that role-model facing challenges and working through them as hard as they may be, we all have something we can do. Since we are a melting pot, we need to see eachothers stories too. We all have a place and a story and we need to start seeing eachother as fellow sojourners rather than enemies living in the same space.