William Randolph Barbee

Historical marker location:

Luray, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of Lee Highway (U.S. 211) and Skyline Drive, on the right when traveling east on Lee Highway.)

Marker installed: 1972

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.