The Virginia Historical Society invites the community to attend Hidden Things Brought to Light: Finding Lumpkin’s Jail and Locating the Burial Ground for Negroes. The free event will be held this Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

“The goal of this conference is to provide a venue where members of the public can get accurate, historical information about Lumpkin’s Jail and the Negro Burial Ground,” said Jeffrey Ruggles, Virginia Historical Society curator of prints and photographs and author of The Unboxing of Henry Brown. “There is a lot of myth and emotion surrounding these two sites. We want people to have the correct information to start a conversation about the past and the future.”

Hidden Things Brought to Light is sponsored by the Virginia Historical Society, the City of Richmond Slave Trail Commission, and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.  For additional information about the free conference, please visit www.vahistorical.org/news/hiddenthings.htm.