At a public meeting held Dec. 10 at the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, the community was offered the first public progress report on the design of the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground memorial.
‘Test Pits’ at Lumpkin’s jail site
The next time you visit the Lumpkin’s Jail site, there will be archaeology happening.
23rd Annual Gabriel Gathering, 225th Anniversary of the Plan
This year marked 23 years of honoring the memory and legacies of “Gabriel’s Rebellion” and the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground.
Update: Shockoe Institute
Construction continues on the 10,000-square foot Shockoe Institute at Richmond’s Main Street Station, but programs have been underway since early this year, either as virtual events or in collaboration with other cultural institutions
Shockoe Project Update
An update on the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground memorial. The proposed theme for the memorial is “Hush Harbor”: hush harbors (or arbors) were the secret spaces in the woods where enslaved people could gather unobserved to rest, worship or plan.
Still following the money
Since the Shockoe Project was announced in February of last year, a major focus for the Defenders has been how the development and operation of the quarter- billion-dollar Shockoe Bottom memorial park will materially – financially – benefit the Black community.
New memorial to be installed at Trail of Enslaved Africans
Richmond’s Trail of Enslaved Africans runs between the former slave-trading district of Shockoe Bottom just north of the James River and Manchester Docks at Ancarrow’s Landing on the river’s southern bank.
The Virginia Defender 