Albert G. Willis

Historical marker location:

Huntly, Virginia

( Marker is on Zachary Taylor Highway (U.S. 522) 0.4 miles north of Hume Road (County Route 635), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2004

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.