How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail
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How Did She Come to Be at Lumkin's Jail?
Half of the 666 thousand interstate sales of enslaved people before the civil war separated families. The jail had actually been built in 18 30 by a different slave trader, but he he came to run it at least by 18 forty four. One day she met a preacher from the north who had been looking for a building to rent out for a school for free black men. She agreed to rent that building to them, and the school was founded there,. It became the corner stone of a historically black college, university.
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