Jackson on the Move

Historical marker location:

12015 Sawhill Blvd, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia

( Marker is on McLaws Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

The Battle of Chancellorsville. 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.