Historical Marker
Saintonge Regiment
Historical marker location:
Yorktown, Virginia
( Marker is on Historical Tour Road, 1 mile west of Crawford Road (County Route 637), 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.