A monument honoring the abolition of slavery was dedicated in Richmond, Virginia, just two miles from where a hulking statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once prominently stood.

Scars showing on his back, the figure stands with arms outstretched as his shackles fall away.

On April 3, 1905, a photographer from the Detroit Publishing Co. captured hundreds of African-Americans parading through the streets of Richmond. The photo made it onto a postcard.

City of Richmond leaders and the Shockoe Institute held a ceremonial groundbreaking in Main Street Station on Thursday on the 160th anniversary of the city’s Emancipation Day.

Shockoe Institute exhibit rendering. The ceremony took place on the anniversary of Richmond’s Emancipation Day when, in 1865, the city surrendered to Union forces and enslaved Richmonders were ...