The Richmond Slave Trail, or The Trail of Enslaved Africans, runs alongside the James River, that river which brought the enslaved from Africa to the newly formed America. Virginia was the major source of enslaved Africans on the east coast from 1830 to 1860, and the trail saw upwards of 350,000 enslaved Africans walked along it’s path beginning in 1775. I just spent a week there on a return visit as I prepare to continue the history based work that I’ve been doing by photographing the landscape along the trail, and contemplating the enormity of the enslavement enterprise, which was of course foundational to the US economy. Virginia, as the major import/export center both retained an enslaved population in that state, but also primarily shipped them to other states as “surplus,” supplying the ever growing market. Much of the visible traces and markers of this horrific period are disappeared now, absorbed by the landscape of the modern city. But the trail remains visible, and I will be looking closely at it, making photographs of what is no longer visible in this landscape of memories.