Historical Marker
Bernard's Cabins
Historical marker location:
3520 Shannon Park Dr, Fredericksburg, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Lee Drive, on the left when traveling east.)
The Battle of Fredericksburg. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.
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.