How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail
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Robert Lumpkin and Mary Lumpkin
We don't know exactly what her life looked like at the jail, but she likely managed his home and cared for the children. Slave women were forced to have the children of their enslavers more often than is commonly known. We don't know what kind of relationship robert lumpkin had with mary lumpkin, but we know it can't be described as romantic manthy americans want to turn these stories into love stories to sanatize the abuse and drama of slavery.
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