3101 E. Broad St.

Historical marker location:

3101 E Broad St, Richmond, Virginia

( Marker is on East Broad Street just east of North 31st Street, on the right when traveling east.)

c. 1888. Historic Richmond Foundation.

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.