"Kathleen Kilpatrick, director of the state Department of Historic Resources, said the jail has national significance. She called it 'ground zero' for understanding the slave trade.
"David Herring, who heads a local historical conservation group, said the slave trade and the city are inextricably linked: 'Richmond would not be here without the slaves that built this city.'"
David Zucchino in the Los Angeles Times reports the excavation of Lumpkin's Slave Jail in Richmond, Virginia.
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