How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail
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The History of Black Colleges and Universities
My understanding is that mary lumpkin and the children were philadelphia for the duration of the civil war. Robert lumpkin appears to have continued to operate his slave jail during that time. And it appears that he may have run some sort of hotel out of the slave jail compound after the civil war, perhaps out of desperation. We know she relied on him financially, so she went back to richmond. She inherited from him the jail and his properties. The home in philadelphia remained in her name. It became the corner stone of a historically black college in university known as virginia union universities.
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