"We Have Never Blushed Before"

Historical marker location:

11619 Iron Brigade Unit Ave, Bristow, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from 10th Alabama Way, 0.2 miles south of Iron Brigade Unit Avenue, on the left when traveling south.)

Bristoe Station 1863.

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.