Historical Marker
And How Will You Remember Them?
Historical marker location:
1495 North Meade Street, Arlington, Virginia
( Marker is on US Marine Memorial Circle north of North Marshall Drive, on the right.)
US Marine Corps War Memorial, George Washington Memorial Parkway.
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.