Historical Marker

Colquitt’s Attack

Historical marker location:
13414 5th Corps Ln, Fredericksburg, Virginia
( Marker is on Elys Ford Road (County Route 610) 0.4 miles north of US Ford Road (County Route 616), on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2014

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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.
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