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> From: Melinda Skinner <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: December 22, 2008 8:19:45 PM EST (CA)
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Richmond slave jail’s  foundation found
> Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia  
> history              <[log in to unmask]>
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> For those of you who didn't get down to Shockoe Bottom yesterday,  
> you can read about the history- making archaeological survey in  
> local and other news--- including the L.A.Times:

> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-richmond-slaves18-2008dec18,0,1368285.story
>
> Here are some other links:
>
> Richmond Times-Dispatch:
> http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/SLAV18_20081217-212925/155991/

>
> AP:
> http://www.newser.com/article/d92dk9n00/virginias-slave-trading-center-being-revealed-by-archaeological-dig-in-downtown-richmond.html

>
> NBC/Channel 12:
> http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=9541354&nav=menu128_2

>
> Norfolk Examiner:
> http://www.examiner.com/a-1749256%7ERichmond_dig_reveals_evidence_of_slave_jail.html?cid=temp-popular

> Fox News:
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,468746,00.html


>
>
> On Dec 22, 2008, at 8:06 PM, Jurretta Heckscher wrote:
>
>> From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 18, 2008.  Full article  
>> at http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/SLAV18_20081217-212925/155991/
>>
>> Richmond slave jail’s foundation found
>> Melodie N. Martin, Times-Dispatch Staff Writer
>> Published: December 18, 2008
>>
>> With young black men used as bait, dogs were trained to track and  
>> pursue runaway slaves in the cobblestone courtyard of a Richmond  
>> slave jail.
>>
>> Hidden for more than a century, the courtyard of round, gray stones  
>> and other remnants of Lumpkin's Slave Jail lay exposed yesterday in  
>> the corner of a Shockoe Bottom parking lot.
>>
>> Archaeologists have spent the past four months digging 8 to 15 feet  
>> down to uncover "an amazingly intact urban complex," which included  
>> brick foundation walls, said Matthew R. Laird, principal  
>> investigator with the James River Institute for Archaeology in  
>> Williamsburg.
>>
>> The dig recovered thousands of period artifacts, including  
>> ceramics, glassware, bottles, a shoe and animal bones.
>>
>> The discovery completes more than five years of planning. The exact  
>> location was identified through the use of an 1835 city survey  
>> map. . . .
>>
>> The jail, owned by Robert Lumpkin, held slaves from 1840 until the  
>> end of the Civil War. Richmond was the country's largest domestic  
>> slave market, second only in overall trade to New Orleans,  
>> Kilpatrick said.
>>
>> "The African-American story cannot be told without exploring the  
>> slave trade and the slave experience. That experience is also  
>> integral to the development of the city of Richmond, socially and  
>> economically," [Kathleen] Kilpatrick [executive director of the  
>> Virginia Department of Historic Resources] said. . . .
>>
>> The cobblestone courtyard was referenced in the writings of 19th- 
>> century author and abolitionist Richard Henry Dana, said Philip J.  
>> Schwarz, a member of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission.
>>
>> "The dogs would accompany the coffle [a group chained together]  
>> taking people south. If somebody tried to run away, they let the  
>> dogs loose," Schwarz said. "It was part of the brutality."
>>
>> The site will be covered with fabric and backfilled with dirt to  
>> protect it, said City Councilwoman Delores L. McQuinn, who heads  
>> the Richmond Slave Trail Commission. A tall, chain-link fence  
>> separates the 12,000-square-foot site from a city-owned parking lot  
>> off 15th and East Franklin streets.
>>
>> In the meantime, McQuinn said, the groups involved in the dig will  
>> seek funding resources for ideas such as a genealogy center, a  
>> museum or a reproduction of the slave jail.
>>
>> She said it was too early to discuss a developer's plans for a  
>> baseball stadium and condominiums in the area, but that they would  
>> continue to pursue their goals "not be deterred by a developer's  
>> plans."
>>
>> "Richmond will speak loud and clear what they want for this  
>> particular area," McQuinn said.
>>
>>
>> [Note from Jurretta:  the statement that "Richmond was the  
>> country's largest domestic slave market, second only in overall  
>> trade to New Orleans" is incorrect: the interstate domestic trade  
>> flourished in the wake of the ending of the overseas slave trade in  
>> 1808, and from that time until Emancipation, New Orleans was the  
>> nation's largest slave market.  Richmond was also, however, a  
>> critically important site for the trade.]
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