Historical Marker
Paspahegh
Historical marker location:
1350 John Tyler Memorial Hwy, Williamsburg, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from John Tyler Memorial Highway (Virginia Route 5) 0.4 miles west of Barretts Ferry Drive, on the right when traveling west.)
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.