Richmond to install 16 markers on slave trail

Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 4:01 a.m.
The Richmond Slave Trail will soon be more than a worn path and a series of dots and lines on a map. This fall, the city plans to install 16 markers on the trail, which chronicles the history of the trade of enslaved Africans who were transported to Virginia until 1775. The trail starts at the site of the Manchester Docks on the south side of the James River, and it ends at the Negro Burial Ground and the original site of First African Baptist Church, just north of East Broad Street near Interstate 95. The trail stretches about 2.5 miles along the river, as well as parts of the Canal Walk and into Shockoe Bottom by Main Street Station.


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