Historical Marker
Hume School
Historical marker location:
1801 South Arlington Ridge Road, Arlington, Virginia
( Marker is on South Arlington Ridge Road, 0.1 miles north of 19th Street South, on the right when traveling north.)
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.