The historic Winfree Cottage, which sits beside the Lumpkin’s Jail site on the Richmond Slave trail in Shockoe bottom, is said to be the last slave cottage in Richmond. The cottage was purchased or built in 1866 by David Winfree, a former slave owner, who deeded it to Emily Winfree, his former slave and the mother of five of his children.
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Study estimates slavery museum would cost up to $220M
A hefty price tag would be attached to creating a national slavery museum on the site of the “Devil’s Half Aacre,” a once notorious slave jail that Richmonder Robert Lumpkin operated before the Civil War and that later became the birthplace of Virginia Union University.
