Robert Hunt

Historical marker location:

Williamsburg, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Colonial Parkway, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1907

1606 - 1907.

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.