1.)The Slavery Reconciliation Statue- Located along the Richmond’s Slave Trail and one of the most important heritage sites in the city, the Slavery Reconciliation statue which was unveiled in 2007, is one of three of its kind worldwide recognizing the evils of the slave trade. The half-ton bronze, 15 ft. sculpture depicting two people melded in an embrace is a symbol of apology for slavery. Identical statues are in Liverpool, England and Benin, West Africa memorializing the British, African and American triangular trade route, now identified as the Reconciliation Triangle. Reconciliation statues are in these cities because for three quarters of the 18th Century, they represented one of the largest global commercial trade triangles of enslaved Africans.

 2.)Lumpkin’s Jail – Once one of the largest and most notorious slave jails in antebellum America, Lumpkin’s Jail is also now a part of the Richmond Slave Trail. The historic site is represented with a tiny building from that time period on display. Even though it was called a jail, Lumpkin’s Jail was really a slave holding pin for punishment where more than 300,000 enslaved blacks were once held. Robert Lumpkin, owner of this jail-structure married one of his slaves and at his death after the Civil War, she inherited his estate. She leased some of the property for a school that later expanded and moved to a new location. This expanded complex evolved into Virginia Union University, a historically black university founded after the Civil War in 1899.

3) Henry Brown Box- Located on the Canal Walk Plaza on the slave trail, this heritage site is a replica of a box that memorializes a heroic escape by a slave desperate for freedom.  It was when his wife and children were sold to another slave trader that Henry Brown decided he had nothing to lose if he tried to escape.  With the help of a sympathetic white storekeeper, Brown had himself nailed in a crate where he was packaged for 27 hours until his deliverance to freedom in the North.  Brown became a noted abolitionist speaker for the Anti-slavery Society. Near the Henry Brown Box, you can also view original auction houses where slaves were auctioned and sold.

4) Maggie Walker National Historic Site - Located in the Jackson Ward District of the city, this historic site includes the home of the first woman in the US to charter and serve as president of a bank. The bank that Maggie Walker ran and a visitor’s center are also a part of this national historic site. The home where Walker lived for more than 30 years is open for tours, fully furnished with some originals and styles of furniture from that time period.  The bank is still intact today where you can experience firsthand how banks operated back then. The visitor’s center is where you can learn about the life and accomplishments of Walker.

5) Hippodrome Theatre – Also located in Jackson Ward, this historic theatre was an entertainment venue in the 1920’s and 1930’s, where Richmond's legendary Bill “Bojangles" Robinson performed. While the Jackson Ward area was once known as the Harlem of the South, Hippodrome was like its “Apollo” where many noted entertainers like Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, James Brown and Billie Holiday performed.  Now completely restored and renovated, Hippodrome is a live music venue and theatre that seats 800 people, with various rooms and sections for entertainment. The Hippodrome adjoins the W.L. Taylor Mansion that features a two-level restaurant with a 120- seat ‘listening room’ where guests can enjoy live entertainment in an intimate setting.

6) Black History Museum and Culture Center- Founded in 1981 and opened to the public in 1991, the museum is also located in the Jackson Ward District not too far from the Walker House. The Black History Museum and Culture Center is a repository for visual, oral and written records, and artifacts commemorating the lives and accomplishments of blacks in Virginia. The museum holds works by renowned artists, and extensive collections of African artifacts from different ethnic groups throughout Africa.  On display at this museum, you will find the bust of Oliver Hill, a prominent black attorney who helped mandate some of today's laws including the historic Brown vs. the Board of Education Bill.

7) Virginia Civil Rights Memorial – Located in Richmond’s Capital Square, this magnificent memorial commemorates the bravery of Virginian children who, more than 50-plus years ago, walked out to protest their run-down schools which triggered the 1954 decision by U.S. Supreme Court banning segregated schools. Unveiled in 2008, the memorial of 18 figures cast in bronze displayed on an eight feet high and twelve feet long granite wall represents this key event in the history of Virginia Civil Rights. Among the bronze figures represented are Richmond's noted attorney Oliver Hill, who took on this case and Barbara Rose Johns who was only 16 years old when she orchestrated the school’s strike. This is the first memorial statue depicting blacks and women in prominent roles on the grounds of Richmond’s Capital.

The Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church – Organized in 1867 by legendary slave minister John Jasper, one of the nation's most well-known post Civil War African American preachers of that time, this church is a very important and popular site along Richmond’s black heritage trail. It is where Jasper, who served as pastor for 34 years, first delivered his famous "De Sun do Move" sermon. He went on to deliver this sermon by invitation more than 250 times to both black and white audiences, and once before the Virginia General Assembly. Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church has a large collection of materials documenting its long history and a room dedicated to the memory of John Jasper.

9) Arthur Ashe Statue – The first black winner of the Wimbledon, Ashe brought pride and honour to his hometown of Richmond as well as to the nation. The city commemorates their beloved late tennis star, who was also committed to AIDS awareness, education, and a civil rights activist, with a monument that was unveiled in 1996 before thousands of spectators. The monument is a bronze 12-feet statue of Ashe with his hands in the air, one with a book representing education and the other with a tennis racket representing sports. It is said that his hand with the book is held higher to emphasize that education is the most important.

10) Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson Statue- This statue is in honor of a man who began dancing for a living at six years old. Robinson later toured with a troupe in Washington, DC and performed with the black theatre circuit when he was in his teens. He became famous around the country as a tap dancer and actor of stage and film after being in the production of ‘Blackbirds’ in 1928. Dedicated in 1973, the nine and a half feet aluminium statue of the famous tap dancer stands on a six feet tall black marble pedestal portraying ‘Bojangles’ dancing down a flight of stairs. The story goes that Robinson in 1933 saw how dangerous the traffic was at a particular intersection, especially for children, so he paid to put a traffic light there. The statue of him is erected at that very intersection in Bojangles Park.