Richmond Slave Trail

Richmond Slave Trail The Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission was established by Richmond City Council in 1998 to

Designed as a walking path, the Richmond Slave Trail chronicles the history of the trade in enslaved Africans from their homeland to Virginia until 1778, and away from Virginia, especially Richmond, to other locations in the Americas until 1865. The trail begins at the Manchester Docks, which, alongside Rocketts Landing on the north side of the river, operated as a major port in the massive downri

ver slave trade, making Richmond the largest source of enslaved blacks on the east coast of America from 1830 to 1860. While many of the slaves were shipped on to New Orleans and to other Deep South ports, the trail follows the footsteps of those who remained here and crossed the James River, often chained together in a coffle. Once reaching the northern riverbank, the trail then follows a route through the slave markets and auction houses of Richmond, beside the Reconciliation Statue commemorating the international triangular slave trade and on to the site of the notorious Lumpkin’s Slave Jail and leading on to the African Burial Ground (Negro Burial Ground) and the First African Baptist Church, a center of African American life in pre-Civil War Richmond.

03/08/2022
Richmond Slave Trail Map
06/20/2017

Richmond Slave Trail Map

Richmond Slave Trail

01/16/2017

Looking toward downtown Richmond from the hilltop where she is buried, Emily Winfree would certainly be astounded.   The comparatively ...

Join us on October 10, 2016 at the Lumpkins site for an announcement about the next phase in the telling of our stories.
10/03/2016

Join us on October 10, 2016 at the Lumpkins site for an announcement about the next phase in the telling of our stories.

Richmond officials are in talks with a Detroit-based architectural firm to develop plans to turn the dormant archaeological remains of Lumpkin's Slave Jail in Shockoe Bottom into a museum.

08/09/2016

Historians, descendants of Monticello slaves, cultural leaders and activists will discuss the history of slavery and its meaning today on race, freedom, and equality during a public summit Sept. 17 at Monticello, the Charlottesville home of President Thomas Jefferson.

04/05/2016

A new museum offers a rebuke — and an antidote — to our sanitized history of slavery

04/01/2016

This is the system that buried many of the central sites relevant to slavery in Shockoe in the mid 20th century and bifurcated Jackson Ward and other neighborhoods.

Addressing the unanticipated consequences of the U-S highway system and urban renewal: Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on helping isolated, poor and minority communities get access to reliable and safe transportation.

03/31/2016

Please join us on Saturday, April 2 for a FREE abbreviated tour of the Richmond Slave Trail. As part of the Civil War & Emancipation activities, guests can join the tour from 10am-12pm which will begin at the Reconciliation Statue at the corner of 15th and E. Main Street in Shockoe Bottom. To RSVP, please email [email protected] or call 804.646.1795 by Friday, April 1.

Moving forward.
03/23/2016

Moving forward.

Officials in Richmond hope to break ground on a memorial or museum at the site of Lumpkin’s slave jail in Shockoe Bottom before the end of the year, though what that site will ultimately look like remains to be determined.

cause and effect."We've chosen the response of the deprivation of liberty for a historically aggrieved group, whose libe...
02/27/2016

cause and effect.
"We've chosen the response of the deprivation of liberty for a historically aggrieved group, whose liberty in the United States was never firmly established to begin with."

Coming soon: The Atlantic's October cover story on the effects of the disproportionate imprisonment of black men

Continuing to understand the longlasting ramifications of this "peculiar institution"...
02/25/2016

Continuing to understand the longlasting ramifications of this "peculiar institution"...

After compiling an inventory of 3,959 lynching victims in 12 Southern states from 1877 to 1950, the Equal Justice Initiative wants to erect markers and memorials on certain sites.

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