Delegate Delores L. McQuinn, chair of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission, addresses the audience at Monday’s development ceremony at the Lumpkin’s Jail site in Shockoe Bottom. Among those joining her on the stage were Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones, Gov. Terry McAuliffe, former Gov. Bob McDonnell, Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, City Council President Michelle Mosby and Dr. Joseph F. Johnson, interim president of Virginia Union University.
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Lumpkin’s Jail ceremony marks first step in memorial project
“Our history must never be buried,” Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones said as he launched the long-awaited effort to create a slavery memorial at the Lumpkin’s Jail site — a once horrific pen in Shockoe Bottom for enslaved people who were bought and sold like cattle.
