April 05, 2009
Virginia Union plans presentation on Lumpkin’s Jail
A presentation on the history and archaeology of Lumpkin’s Jail will be held in the Wilder Library Lecture Hall at Virginia Union University at 9 a.m. April 15. The Lumpkin’s Jail complex in Shockoe Bottom was the site of one of the largest slave-trading centers in the United States before the Civil War. After the Civil War, Virginia Union’s first classes were taught in the former slave jail.
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