My image that encapsulated the experience was an image by where the old prison site itself used to be, where by the signages that detailed the stories of the Devil’s Acre, was a rock labeled “Gabriel, Not Forgotten.”

I believe it was a fairly powerful component. Gabriel, meaning Strength of God in Hebrew – and the specific phrase “not forgotten” – While before coming to Richmond and reading Richmond’s Unhealed History, I had been fairly unfamiliar with who Gabriel was. However, the site itself was very familiar with Gabriel, his story, and his rebellion.

Another interesting point was how the old location, the “Devil’s Acre” was eventually turned into a historically black college, Virginia Union University, originally founded to educate Freedman after the property had been taken under his wife who decided to use it to support African Americans. It was the site of the University until they eventually moved to its present-day location.