Dispatch from the Field: Go see Shockoe Institute’s Expanding Freedom exhibit!
by Debra Copeland In April, the Shockoe Institute opened its Expanding Freedom exhibit at Richmond’s historic Main Street Station, on land that was once the center of the slave trade. The exhibit is a rich and expansive telling of Richmond’s history as it relates to slavery—a telling which reveals just how deep and significant that relationship was: Slavery once ran the economic engines not only of Richmond, but far beyond, from the agricultural Deep South to the industrial North; from the...
