Wow, not any slave but the FIRST slave! I always kind of thought they brought a bunch over at the same time, but apparently, there briefly was a time where there was just a single slave in the entire country known as “the first slave”.
Would have really sucked being him.
***Wow, not any slave but the FIRST slave! I always kind of thought they brought a bunch over at the same time,****
From what I have read, the first slaves were treated as “Indentured Servants” and were given their freedom after 17 years. Same for Indentured whites.
John Punch, the first documented African enslaved for life in American history, was owned by A BLACK FREEMAN who took Punch to court and had him made a PERMANENT SLAVE as a result of his attempt to escape his Indentured status.
So, the first slave in New England was owned by a black man.