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FROM Elizabeth Dudley Cann Kambourian:

Regarding the Stadium Controversy: It has been brought to my attention that the Slave Trail Commission, and Mayor Jones are citing the so-called "Kambourian Map" as their "evidence" that there are no pertinent slave trading sites within the proposed footprint of the Stadium. Let me make it perfectly clear: the "Kambourian Map" is one I showed to the Slave Trail Commission in the fall of 2000, as an "idea" of what might be located in Shockoe Bottom. Ralph White asked if he could make a copy of it. I agreed based on his assurance that it would not be shared or used. I made it clear that it was a rough preliminary sketch and was not by any means verified information.

In the interim. My map has been used in Slave Trail Publications and god knows what other so called documentation. I have pointed out, many times to various members that the map was not correct, complete or accurate. I refused to allow my map to be used when asked by Mr. White and others.

Assorted mistakes have been perpetuated with this rough document that was obtained from me. In the years since, I have fleshed out the locations of slave traders, and most importantly, deleted those who could not be confirmed as slave dealers. (Davenport, for instance, though his building at 15th and Main is proudly shoved down the public's throat as a "bona fide" slave dealer's establishment. The poor man was a grocer and dry goods merchant!

The Slave Trail literature says the stone masonry at the Burial Ground for Negroes is part of the original "GALLOWS" on which Gabriel and his co-conspirators were hanged - this in spite of the fact that I explained to the STC member in 2000, that the title search indicated it was a 20th century structure, and furthermore it was full of dynamite holes where the granite had been quarried, and therefore couldn't be a 17-18th century structure as dynamite wasn't invented until the 1870s.

I want the Slave Trail Commission and their cohorts to cease and desist using my erroneous preliminary map of the slave trade district. It is being used without my permission, and in fact, with my clear and explicit demands in the past that they stop.

If anyone is interested in documented truth about what is in the footprint of the proposed Stadium, I am willing to make it available to a RELIABLE individual.

Again: The so-called KAMBOURIAN MAP is erroneous, and gotten and being used without my permission.
	FROM Elizabeth Dudley Cann Kambourian:

	Regarding the Stadium Controversy: It has been brought to my attention that the Slave Trail Commission, and Mayor Jones are citing the so-called "Kambourian Map" as their "evidence" that there are no pertinent slave trading sites within the proposed footprint of the Stadium. Let me make it perfectly clear: the "Kambourian Map" is one I showed to the Slave Trail Commission in the fall of 2000, as an "idea" of what might be located in Shockoe Bottom. Ralph White asked if he could make a copy of it. I agreed based on his assurance that it would not be shared or used. I made it clear that it was a rough preliminary sketch and was not by any means verified information.

	In the interim. My map has been used in Slave Trail Publications and god knows what other so called documentation. I have pointed out, many times to various members that the map was not correct, complete or accurate. I refused to allow my map to be used when asked by Mr. White and others.

	Assorted mistakes have been perpetuated with this rough document that was obtained from me. In the years since, I have fleshed out the locations of slave traders, and most importantly, deleted those who could not be confirmed as slave dealers. (Davenport, for instance, though his building at 15th and Main is proudly shoved down the public's throat as a "bona fide" slave dealer's establishment. The poor man was a grocer and dry goods merchant!

	The Slave Trail literature says the stone masonry at the Burial Ground for Negroes is part of the original "GALLOWS" on which Gabriel and his co-conspirators were hanged - this in spite of the fact that I explained to the STC member in 2000, that the title search indicated it was a 20th century structure, and furthermore it was full of dynamite holes where the granite had been quarried, and therefore couldn't be a 17-18th century structure as dynamite wasn't invented until the 1870s.

	I want the Slave Trail Commission and their cohorts to cease and desist using my erroneous preliminary map of the slave trade district. It is being used without my permission, and in fact, with my clear and explicit demands in the past that they stop.

	If anyone is interested in documented truth about what is in the footprint of the proposed Stadium, I am willing to make it available to a RELIABLE individual.

	Again: The so-called KAMBOURIAN MAP is erroneous, and gotten and being used without my permission.