Speak Up for Shockoe Bottom E action

[Omaha Steve]

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Speak Up for Shockoe Bottom

Shockoe Bottom, site of the nation’s second-largest domestic slave market, is endangered and we need your help to save it.

Since the Civil War, evidence of Shockoe Bottom’s notorious past has been mostly razed, paved over and buried under surface parking and vacant lots. This is not appropriate treatment for a place upon which thousands of people were bought, tortured and killed. Neither is a plan by the Richmond mayor to bring a minor league baseball and other large-scale development to this hallowed ground.

Join us in urging the mayor to support a nine-acre memorial park concept in Shockoe Bottom. This plan would enable the full and fair commemoration of Shockoe’s story and build on the strong work of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission.

Together we can ensure Shockoe Bottom’s past is fully explored and its meaning is conveyed to present and future generations.

Thank you for adding your voice to #SaveShockoe.



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[gwheezie]

1. For the past few years I've walked the slave trail

From the Manchester docks to lumpkins jail. There are tours all year but I do it as part on the juneteenth celebration. It's a very solemn walk at dusk by candle light
Richmond is a city of monuments to racists.