Historical Marker
Brown Barracks
Historical marker location:
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
( Memorial is on Gunston Road just west of Jackson Loop, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1957
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.