Washington Post Walks the Slave Trail

The Washington Post takes a look at the slave trail and shares it’s experience.

The muddy south bank of the James River in Richmond is rife with memories that were kept secret for years. Here, centuries ago, captive Africans in chains would be unloaded from ships and marched along a narrow path beside the river at night, so that white residents wouldn’t be offended by their sight and smell, to holding places in town. Then, at docks and auction houses, they’d be sold to white owners to clear land and plant tobacco.