Historical Marker
Christopher Newport Cross / Canal Walk
Historical marker location:
Richmond, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from the intersection of South 12th Street and East Byrd Street.)
Richmond Riverfront.
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.