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Apr 4, 2022 · Sold away as a young girl, probably from one or both of her parents, she was purchased by the slave trader Robert Lumpkin, a violent white man 27 years her senior. When she was about 13, she...
- Who Was Mary Lumpkin?
- Mary Lumpkin’s Life on The Devil’s Half Acre
- How Mary Lumpkin Helped Turn A Slave Jail Into An HBCU
Not much is known about Mary Lumpkin’s early life, but according to Smithsonian Magazine, she was born in 1832. She was described as “fair faced” and “nearly white,” and she may have been the child of an enslaved woman and her enslaver. Robert Lumpkin purchased Mary at some point in the late 1830s or early 1840s, when she was still a child. By the ...
There are several surviving contemporary accounts from enslaved men who were imprisoned at Lumpkin’s Jail — and some of them even mention Mary. According to The Washington Post, a reverend named A. M. Newman recalled being sent to the jail as punishment when he was a child. He vividly remembered a “whipping room” with iron rings in the floor: “The ...
When Robert Lumpkin died in 1866, Mary and her children were living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they’d moved when the Civil War broke out to avoid being captured and sold into slavery. Robert left the jail to Mary in his will, but she wanted nothing to do with it. So when she heard that an abolitionist minister named Nathaniel Colver was s...
Retropolis. She was raped by the owner of a notorious slave jail. Later, she inherited it. Enslaved herself, Mary Lumpkin bore witness to the torture of Robert Lumpkin’s prisoners in...
Apr 16, 2018 · Concubine and wife aren’t the right terms, and I don’t believe that she could consent to a relationship with Robert Lumpkin, both because she was enslaved and because she was so young. That’s not to say she didn’t have agency over other parts of her life.
Jun 28, 2021 · Corey identified the woman as Mary Jane Lumpkin, the widow of Richmond slave dealer Robert Lumpkin. Robert operated a slave jail from the 1830s to 1860s, three blocks from the Virginia...
- Mildred Europa Taylor
Lumpkin's Jail. Coordinates: 37.536576°N 77.428534°W. Lumpkin's Jail, also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a slave breeding farm, [1] as well as a holding facility, or slave jail, located in Richmond, Virginia, just three blocks from the state capitol building. More than five dozen firms traded in enslaved human beings within blocks of ...
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Jul 26, 2022 · Richmond-based author Kristen Green has released a book about Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who was raped and forced to have the children of a notorious owner of a slave jail, Robert Lumpkin.
