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The Devil's Half Acre - The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail (Hardcover)
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The Devil's Half Acre - The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail (Hardcover)
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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 fulfil 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 freedom, her historic
contributions, and her enduring legacy.
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