AP Photo/Steve Helber-David Napier, owner of The Old City Bar in Richmonds former slave-trading district, is president of the Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Association, is photographed in his bar in Richmond, […]
AP Photo/Steve Helber-David Napier, owner of The Old City Bar in Richmonds former slave-trading district, is president of the Shockoe Bottom Neighborhood Association, is photographed in his bar in Richmond, Va., Wednesday April 3, 2014. The association has backed an economic development proposal that includes a baseball stadium. Some opponents argue the national pastime shouldnt be played were slaves were jailed, bought and sold. Napier says the development can enhance the citys oldest neighborhood and also pay homage to the hundreds of thousands of slaves that were traded in the streets of the Bottom in the decades leading to the Civil War.