Documented Arrival Sites

🟦 Site with Ceremony & Marker 🟥 Site with Marker 🟨 Site with Ceremony ⬛ Unmarked Arrival Site

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This page contains images, research, and resources related to documented Middle Passage arrival sites in the United States and its territories. Please refer to the map above and photo gallery below to see the list of these locations and the current status of each, including designations by the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor and UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project.

Use the photo gallery “select tag” option to filter by state, designation, and/or marker & ceremony status. Click on a photo to enhance the image and reveal more information about the site, including address and date the marker was installed.

Documented Arrival Sites

*Ceremony Held *Marker Installed Alabama Connecticut Florida Georgia Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Mississippi MPCPMP Involvement New Hampshire New Jersey New York No Ceremony or Marker Yet North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Texas UNESCO Sites of Memory Virginia Washington D.C.

Mobile, AL

Middletown, CT

New London, CT

Amelia Island / Fernandina Beach, FL

Key West, FL

Mosquito Inlet, FL

Pensacola, FL

St. Augustine, FL

Jekyll Island, GA

Savannah, GA

Tybee Island, GA

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans/Algiers, LA

Edgewater / Londontown, MD

Historic Sotterley / Hollywood, MD

Oxford, MD

Boston, MA

Portsmouth, NH

Camden, NJ

New York, NY

Beaufort, NC

Portsmouth Island, NC

Philadelphia, PA

Bristol, RI

Providence, RI

Warren, RI

Charleston, SC

Sullivan’s Island, SC

Galveston, TX

Port Arthur, TX

Fredericksburg, VA

Hampton/Point Comfort, VA

Jamestown, VA

Richmond, VA

Yorktown, VA

Resources

We have started archiving primary and secondary resources about documented arrival sites. Click through the links below and check back often as we will be adding to this list regularly.

* Indicates marker installed

Alabama

• Africatown, Alabama

Georgia

• Cockspur Island, Georgia
• Sapelo Sound, Georgia
• Savannah, Georgia*
• Tybee Island, Georgia*

Maryland

• London Town, Maryland*

Mississippi

• Biloxi, Mississippi

Puerto Rico

• Humacao, Puerto Rico

Texas

• Port Arthur, Texas*

We would like to acknowledge Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database as our principal source for identifying these locations and thank Lynn Carlson, PhD, Brown University, for support developing the map.