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020			_a9781541675636 _q(hardcover)
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092			_aLumpkin, M. _bG796
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aGreen, Kristen _c(Journalist), _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe devil's half acre : _bthe untold story of how one woman liberated the South's most notorious slave jail / _cKristen Green.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2204
264		1	_aNew York : _bSeal Press, _c2022.
300			_axii, 332 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.
505	0		_aChosen ones -- "That which is brought forth follows the womb" -- The thing we can't name -- So well acquainted -- Anthony Burns and the Fugitive Slave Act -- Leaving the South -- Richmond families in Philadelphia -- Capital of the Confederacy -- After the war -- "God's half acre."
520			_a"While Confederate statues are brought down across the country, America is reckoning with its tumultuous past and the legacy of the darker chapters of our history. In The Devil's Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of deep research to tell the extraordinary hidden story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who sought freedom and lit a path for liberation for thousands more. 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 slave-trader 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. These same grounds where enslaved people were tortured and held before slave auctions eventually became the cornerstone for Virginia Union University, one of the nation's first HBCUs, which is still open today. Richly told and dramatically paced, The Devil's Half Acre reckons with America's heartbreaking past. Ultimately, Mary Lumpkin's story demonstrates that righting unspeakable wrongs can not only heal, but can empower generations to come"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aLumpkin, Mary F.
610	2	0	_aVirginia Union University (Richmond, Va.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAfrican American women _zVirginia _zRichmond _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen slaves _zVirginia _zRichmond _vBiography.
650		0	_aSlave trade _zVirginia _zRichmond _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aJails _zVirginia _zRichmond _xHistory _y19th century.
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