BLACK SLAVE OWNER

A Black Man Owned the First Life-Time Slave Anthony Johnson was a black indentured slave from Angola who arrived in Virginia in 1621. He completed his indentured service and gained his freedom. He then became one of the first Africans to own property in America. Acquiring a 250-acre tobacco plantation, Johnson owned four white slaves and one black slave, John Casor. After seven years, Casor left and began working as a free man on another farm. In 1655, Johnson brought a lawsuit and won to keep Casor a slave indefinitely. This legal action made John Casor one of the first persons of African descent in the 13 English Colonies to be a slave for life. https://nationalblackrepublicanassociation.org/history/