A protester walks through the crowd during the Lumpkin’s Jail ceremony to raise awareness of the mass incarceration of African-Americans in the United States. The event also marked the 216th anniversary of the execution of slave revolt leader Gabriel Prosser on the grounds.
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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.
