A FAMILY’S STORY BECOMES A MONUMENT

At Fort Monroe, Va., Antony, Isabella and their son William Tucker are memorialized in a powerful new sculpture—giving Hampton Roads a permanent place to tell the story that began in America in 1619.

HAMPTON, Va.

More than four centuries after a ship carrying captive Africans sailed into Point Comfort (now Fort Monroe, Va.), a family whose story began in bondage now stands in bronze on the Virginia shoreline where their lives—and the history of Black America—were forever changed…

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