The Shockoe Institute will study Virginia’s role in the slave trade and related issues that linger today, as Richmond confronts a long-neglected history.
Marland Buckner is head of the Shockoe Institute, a new nonprofit in Richmond that aims to tell the story of slavery’s role in the evolution of America and to facilitate discussions about social issues.
At Shockoe, work begins soon to convert a 10,000-square-foot section of the former train shed at Main Street Station in downtown Richmond into a building for the institute, which will have public exhibition space as well as a “lab” for studying public and personal history. Set to open by the end of next year, the space is being designed by the New York firm Local Projects, which also created the 9/11 memorial in New York and the Greenwood Rising civil rights museum in Tulsa.
“This geography has been contested and litigated and been a political football far too long, and I have no truck with that,” Buckner told a gathering of local dignitaries, advocates and history buffs at a preview event Thursday night. The slave trade and the cotton it produced built economic connections between the South, England and western Africa, not to mention rapidly industrializing cities in Northern states, Kimball said. “Capital was flowing between Richmond, London and New York. Those large-scale connections are pretty profound,” he said.Kimball is working with Buckner and others at the Shockoe Institute to portray that history in a way that’s interesting and relatable to modern-day issues.
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