One of the most notorious slave jails in Richmond. Robert Lumpkin purchased the facilities in 1844, but the jail was built by Bacon Tait from 1830 on, and later leased to Lewis A. Collier, a fellow Richmond slave trader. Robert Lumpkin ran the jail…
This monument raises awareness for Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved women who inherited Lumpkin’s Slave Jail from her enslaver and “husband”, which she rented out to Rev. Colver. This former Jail was transformed into a school for newly freed individuals,…
