News, Virginia dig searches for black Southern heritage. (slavery, country, American)
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RICHMOND, Va. - In a district where young professionals live in airy lofts and flock to trendy restaurants and clubs, historians are intent on revealing the buried remnants of Richmond's bustling slave-trading past.
Construction equipment began digging this week in Shockoe Bottom at the former site of Lumpkin's Slave Jail, an infamous stop in the former Confederate capital's once-thriving commerce in enslaved men, women and children.
Virginia dig searches for black Southern heritage - Yahoo! News (broken link)
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If somebody is currently being beaten with a whip, then call the police, because that's considered assault and is an arrestable offense in most places.
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