It’s a nearly $50 million project that will include exhibits at Main Street Station and span more than 10 acres to detail the city's involvement in the slave trade.
The 10-acre site in Shockoe Valley, they say, will tell the entire history of enslaved people and the effects it has had on the city and country as a whole.
Richmond is dedicating 10 acres in the city’s historic Shockoe Bottom to preserve and develop a destination to acknowledge and teach about the city s sordid history with slavery.
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