By Jeremy Hirsch and Scott Kennedy
VCU InSight
Entries from May 2009
May 13, 2009
Student Moms Balance Studies, Home Life
By Nurah Abdul-Majeed and Brittany Grove
VCU InSight
May 10, 2009
Slave Trail Seeks to Free City’s History
By Stephanie Power and Anna Yates
Capital News Service
RICHMOND – Near the corner of 17th and Main streets downtown is the site of Lumpkin’s Jail, where African slaves arriving at the Manchester docks were held before being sold off.
Down the street, under a parking lot, is an old burial ground for slaves and poor free blacks. [...]
May 10, 2009
Sites along the Richmond Slave Trail
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The Richmond Slave Trail mirrors the experience of many African slaves in Richmond. It begins on the south side of the James River at Ancarrow’s Landing and ends a little more than three miles later at the First African Baptist Church near Main and 15th streets.
May 10, 2009
Storyteller Mulls America’s Heritage
By Stephanie Power and Anna Yates
Capital News Service
Late one night, Nessa Baskerville Johnson received a strange phone call.
“I think I’m your cousin,” said an unfamiliar voice.
Stranger still: The caller told Johnson that their common relative was a great-grandfather five generations back – a white man who enslaved members of Johnson’s family. The newfound cousin was [...]
