Historical Marker
Sully Historic Site
Historical marker location:
3450 Historic Sully Way, Chantilly, Virginia
( Marker is at the intersection of Historic Sully Way and Air and Space Museum Parkway, on the right when traveling south on Historic Sully Way.)
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.