Historical Marker
Remembering Ancestors
Historical marker location:
1368 Colonial Parkway, Jamestown, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Colonial Parkway, 1.2 miles east of Jamestown Road (Virginia Route 31), 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.