The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail by Kristen Green Full Page



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The?inspiring?true story of?an?enslaved woman who liberated an infamous?slave?jail?and?transformed?it?into?one of the nation?s first?HBCUs?In?The Devil?s Half Acre,?New?York?Times?bestselling author Kristen Green?draws?on years of?research?to tell the extraordinary?and?little-known?story?of young?Mary Lumpkin, an?enslaved woman who?blazed?a path?of?liberation?for thousands.?She?was?forced to?have the children of?a?brutal?slave?trader?and live?on the premises of?his?slave jail,?known as the ?Devil?s Half Acre.??When?she?inherited?the?jail?after the death of her slaveholder, she?transformed?it into ?God?s Half Acre,? a?school?where?Black men could?fulfill their?dreams.?It?still exists today as Virginia Union University, one of America?s first?Historically Black?Colleges and Universities.??A sweeping narrative of a life in the margins of the American slave trade,?The Devil?s Half Acre?brings Mary Lumpkin?into the light. This is the story of the resilience of a woman on the path to
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