The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

Author/Contributor(s):	Green, Kristen
Publisher:	Seal Press (CA)
Date:	04/12/2022
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"Enslaved and separated from her family when she was a child, Mary Lumpkin, born 1832, was later forced to secretly marry and have the children of the brutal slavetrader Robert Lumpkin. Together they lived on the premises of his notoriously cruel slave jail in Richmond, Virginia, known as the 'Devil's Half Acre.' In this destitute setting, Mary Lumpkin not only found a way to educate and free her children--and herself--but she managed to create something monumental. When Robert Lumpkin died and left his jail to Mary, she rented The Devil's Half Acre to a Baptist missionary and helped transform it into 'God's Half Acre,' a place where freed Black men could be educated"