Historical Marker
Free State
Historical marker location:
880 Belvedere Boulevard, Rio, Virginia
( Marker is on Belvedere Boulevard, 0.1 miles east of Belvedere Place, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2014
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.