A Union Advance

Historical marker location:

Williamsburg, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Colonial National Historic Parkway, 1 mile west of Penniman Road (Virginia Route 641), on the right when traveling east.)

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.