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A Formerly Enslaved Woman Helped Found a Key American University

Mary Lumpkin’s life helps us to better understand the post-Civil War push for education.

by Kristen Green via Made By History on May 10, 2022
The Enslaved Woman Who Liberated a Slave Jail and Transformed It Into an HBCU

Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom.

by Kristen Green via Smithsonian on April 4, 2022
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How Ancestry.com Has Failed African American Customers

The genealogy site fails to understand the fundamental differences between white and black history.

by Kristen Green via Made By History on May 31, 2019
Prince Edward County's Long Shadow of Segregation

50 years after closing its schools to fight racial integration, a Virginia county still feels the effects.

by Kristen Green via The Atlantic on August 1, 2015

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Lumpkin’s Jail; engraving from A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary, 1895

A Fable of Agency

Kristen Green’s "The Devil’s Half Acre" recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on May 5, 2022

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