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The effort to commemorate the city’s legacy in the slave trade previously manifested at the Shockoe Bottom African Burial and Lumpkin’s Slave Jail in the early 2000s.
This community-based exhibition currently on display in Shockoe Bottom, Richmond, VA, features large-scale, historic photographs that depict African Americans from the early 1800s to the 1980s.
The Shockoe Project also includes improvements and additional commemoration aspects to The Richmond Slave Trail, The Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground, the Winfree Cottage and its relocation ...
An abandoned gas station and a billboard sit atop Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond on July 3. It’s considered one of the most endangered historical sites in Virginia.
City planner Kim Chen spoke to 8News about the erasure of another burial ground in Richmond — the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground. “It’s been erased,” Chen said.
The Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground is a site of incredible importance for Black Virginians, as it was a significant burial ground between 1816 to 1879. It came after free Black Richmonders ...
The Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground, Richmond’s first municipal cemetery for enslaved and free Africans and African Americans, received its historical marker from the Virginia Department of ...
The Shockoe Project is inviting the community to an important engagement session focused on gathering the public’s opinion for the memorialization of the Shockoe Hill African Burial Ground.
The Burying Ground, now wedged between North 5th Street, Hospital Street and Interstate 64, opened in 1816 to replace the original burial ground in Shockoe Valley. It was closed in 1879.
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