Talk:Lumpkin's Jail

More work needed
To prevent link rot, I added the only hard copy source I could find listing Richmond's slave traders, though IMHO the Trammell book isn't up to academic standards. For its slave trader list that I cited, it cites the City of Richmond's Parks and Recreation Department pamphlet entitled "Seeing the Scars of Slavery" which I do not have. For what it's worth, the Newtown Historic District (Newtown Virginia) in King and Queen County, Virginia has a building called the Richardson-Lumpkin house which might be related to this slave-trading family, as slaves bred in the Middle Peninsula would be trafficked in Richmond, then shipped further south by foot (through the Cumberland Gap) or later via boat and/or rail. I could not quickly figure out how to mention (much less cite) the literary image I often encountered, of Lumpkin trying to board the last train out of the burning city of Richmond with several of his slaves in April 1865, as the Confederate Government left. That said, two men of the same surname served in the Virginia House of Delegates: John Lumpkin of King and Queen County in the 1843-1844 session, and Thomas Lumpkin of Bedford County (near Lynchburg and the route to the Cumberland Gap) in 1783. Neither yet has a wikipedia article, and unfortunately my to-do list is already huge. Probably there is a familial link to two Georgians with the Lumpkin surname who do have wikipedia articles, and one of which mentions Thomas Lumpkin as the original emigrant from England. While slave trading was economically very important in Virginia, polite society often used euphemisms, as well as disfavored association with the class.Jweaver28 (talk) 22:36, 14 June 2021 (UTC)Jweaver28 (talk) 22:42, 15 June 2021 (UTC)