History Cast in Bronze: African Landing Day Unveiled at Fort Monroe

History Cast in Bronze: African Landing Day Unveiled at Fort Monroe

On the historic grounds of Fort Monroe, a new sculpture honoring the first documented Africans in English North America was unveiled.

‘We are here.’ Fort Monroe unveils statues depicting arrival of North America’s first enslaved Africans

In a ceremony Saturday the Fort Monroe Authority unveiled a statue of Antoney and Isabella Tucker holding their baby boy, William Tucker, memorializing the first enslaved Africans to arrive on the shores of English-occupied North America.