Historical Marker
Comte de Grasse
Historical marker location:
410 Main St, Yorktown, Virginia
( Memorial is on Main Street just west of Read Street, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1931
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.