Historical Marker

Patrick Robert “Parker” Sydnor

Historical marker location:
Clarksville, Virginia
( Marker is on Virginia Route 49 north of U.S. 15, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2014

(1854’1950).

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.
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