Lumpkin's Jail

A shuttered prison. Lumpkin's Jail, also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a prominent slave-holding facility, or slave jail, and slave trading complex 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 and 18th Streets between the 1830s and the end...