Historical Marker
The Brig Betsy
Historical marker location:
Yorktown, Virginia
( Marker can be reached from Water Street west of Comte de Grasse Street, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2010
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.