Historical Marker
Thomas Jefferson
Historical marker location:
931 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy, Charlottesville, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Monticello Loop, 0.3 miles east of Thomas Jefferson Parkway, on the right when traveling east.)
Citizen-Statesman-Patriot.
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.