Historical Marker
Convention Army The Barracks
Historical marker location:
Charlottesville, Virginia
( Marker is on Barracks Farm Road (County Route 658) east of Garthfield Lane, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2011
The first slave ship to arrive in the American colonies landed in Virginia in 1619. Virginia became a center of the transatlantic slave trade, and by 1860, Virginia had the largest population of enslaved people in the United States.