Fort Brady

Historical marker location:

Henrico, Virginia

( Marker is on Hoke Brady Road, 0.9 miles south of Kingsland Road, on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2011

Richmond-Petersburg Campaign.

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.