which will allow for the continuation of the Richmond Slave Trail. The acquisition comes through a partnership with the city of Richmond and Capital Region Land Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated ...

The replica will serve as a memorial for those of African descent affected by enslavement and will be built at Ancarrow’s Trailhead, marking the beginning of the Richmond Slave Trail.

Thomas Henry allowed Gabriel to hire himself out to masters in and around Richmond, giving him access to a certain amount of freedom, as well as money. Gabriel also met fellow hired slaves ...

A local conservation group purchased 4.5 acres of riverfront land to help preserve part of the Richmond Slave Trail while growing the James River Park System. Why it matters: The trail is a ...

And so, to the best of history’s knowledge, “Box” Brown was the only person who was ever shipped out of slavery. Holy Cow!

But they came to their searches after different ordeals. Bashop had been sold apart from her 12-year-old daughter at a Richmond slave auction and hauled off to pick cotton in Mississippi after the ...

"Richmond is the root of oppression." That's one of the ways Ashley J. Williams described the city she's called home for 10 years. She said she was speaking of the Virginia capital as a whole, as ...

In Virginia’s capital, a renewed effort to honor slaves Officials in Richmond, Virginia, have announced a major funding commitment for an ambitious and long-envisioned memorial campus in the ...

The event’s theme was the United States Colored Troops and featured an on-stage presentation, reenactors, as well as an indoor accessible exhibit of the Richmond Slave Trail. Here2Hear’s Black ...

the Black History Museum is proud to add our voice to the collective storytelling of Richmond and Virginia’s significance to the transatlantic slave trade. Our goal through the “Portals ...