Lumpkin's Jail was located in what is now called the Historic Shockoe Bottom in Richmond, Virginia. The sunken jail was known as 'The Devil's Half Acre' because it was a holding pen, a punishment and 'breaking' center for more than 300,000 enslaved men and women, and the slaves inside the pen would have felt hemmed […]

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