Historical Marker
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Historical marker location:
9064 Courthouse Rd, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
( Memorial is at the intersection of Courthouse Road (Virginia Route 208) and Brock Road, on the left when traveling south on Courthouse Road.)
Marker installed: 1964
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.