I mean, obviously, there's great historical work being done, there's great archaeological work that's being done. It's not that it's like some deep, dark secret. And there's really not a lot of ghost stories about the slave trading markets that enter into the folklore of Richmond despite the fact that untold cruelties happened there.
And it was fascinating to see the way that when Richmond sort of tells the stories about all of the tragedies that have taken place in Shockoe Bottom - at least as far as the ghost stories go - they seem to leave kind of the most glaring example out. But the city's countless hauntings rarely acknowledge Richmond's history with slavery.īut Shockoe Bottom has this other history, which is, outside of New Orleans, it was the most heavily populated slave trading market. There seem to be ghosts everywhere in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom neighborhood (if you believe the stories).
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