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The Shockoe Bottom slave market
1840
Richmond, Virginia
Morgan Riley, Midlothian, Virginia · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
After 1808 the domestic trade replaced the Atlantic one, and Richmond became its second-largest market after New Orleans, perhaps 300,000 people sold from these few blocks, mostly south to the cotton states. Robert Lumpkin's jail here was known as the Devil's Half Acre. A Black seminary was founded on the site after the war.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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