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Bible Study Title: First Slave Owner in America was Black I love actual history. Not the stuff the left makes up, but real, actual history. Anthony Johnson was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia, where he became one of the first black property owners and slaveholders. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years, which was accompanied by a grant of land. He later became a successful tobacco farmer. Notably, he is recognized for attaining great wealth after having been an indentured servant and has been referred to as “'the black patriarch' of the first community of Negro property owners in America". Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company. Johnson was sold to a white planter named Bennet as an indentured servant to work on his Virginia tobacco farm. Servants typically worked under an indenture contract for four to seven years to pay off their passage, room, board, lodging and freedom dues. In the early colonial years, most Africans in the Thirteen Colonies were held under such contracts of indentured servitude. When Anthony Johnson was released from servitude, he was legally recognized as a "free Negro." He developed a successful farm. In 1651 he owned 250 acres, and the services of four white and one black indentured servants. In 1653, John Casor, a black indentured servant whose contract Johnson appeared to have bought in the early 1640s, approached Captain Goldsmith, claiming his indenture had expired seven years earlier and that he was being held illegally by Johnson. A neighbor, Robert Parker, intervened and persuaded Johnson to free Casor. Parker offered Casor work, and he signed a term of indenture to the planter. Johnson sued Parker in the Northampton Court in 1654 for the return of Casor. The court initially found in favor of Parker, but Johnson appealed. In 1655, the court reversed its ruling.[10] Finding that Anthony Johnson still "owned" John Casor, the court ordered that he be returned with the court dues paid by Robert Parker. This was the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who had committed no crime could be held in servitude for life. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 3. I think he was the first "legal" slave owner. He had to go to court to bring "legal" slavery to America. So really who cause this black and white issue? Before this you could only have indentured servitude black or white. In fact I believe Anthony Johnson was an indentured slave before he became a slave owner.
#3. To: Justified (#1) (Edited) I think he was the first "legal" slave owner. He had to go to court to bring "legal" slavery to America. Very true. Johnson held 4 white and 1 black indentured servants. He went to court to have the black indentured servant declared an indentured servant for life (a slave). There are a lot of things in this story the left wants to cover up: 1.) How did Johnson become an indentured servant? He was captured by an enemy black tribe in Africa and sold to Arab slave traders. Blacks selling blacks to Arabs, who then sold them all over North and South America is something the left doesn't want you to know about it because it spoils their narrative of whites in America being the center of evil in the world. 2.) After his term of servitude was over, he became a wealthy property owner and farmer. The left does't want you to know that blacks could and did become wealthy in the colonies 400 years ago. 3.) He held four white indentured servants. The left certainly doesn't want you to know that a black man could and did hold white people as indentured servants.
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