Did You Know the First Legal Slave Owner in America Was a Black Man?

Gateway Pundt ^ | 4/23/15 | Jim Hoft

[blueyon]

Here’s something you won’t read about in the US history books. The first legal slave owner in America was black and he owned white slaves.

Anthony Johnson (BC 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia.

Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab (Muslim) slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company.

Sometime after 1635, Antonio and Mary gained their freedom from indenture. Antonio changed his name to Anthony Johnson.

In 1651 Anthony Johnson owned 250 acres, and the services of four white and one black indentured servants. The black indentured servant John Casor (Casar, Cazarao and Corsala) demanded that Johnson release him after his seven years of indenture.

In March of 1654, according to Delmarva Settlers, Anthony’s servant, a man named John Casar requested that Johnson release him from his indenture because it had long expired past the usual seven years. Johnson replied that he knew of no indenture and that Casar was to be his servant for life. Anthony Johnson’s neighbors, George and Robert Parker, stated that they knew of another indenture for the said Casar to a planter on the other side of the bay.

[blueyon]

The reason why I am posting this is to show how the left digs their holes.

FACT: The first "LEGALLY OWNED BLACK SLAVE" was owned by Anthony Johnson who also was a black man...........

[Heartlander]

From the office of Rev. Wayne Perryman (2004): DYK - The Democrats Owe Blacks an Apology

[GregoTX]

That was very common, but lets not get distracted from what is truly important here.

Flag! Flag! Flag! Flag! Flag! Flag! Flag! Flag! Flag! Flag!

[mrmeyer]

The ignorant and misinformed don't like being distracted by facts. It's feeeelllinngs that matter in the new america.

[MrB]

1) Hypocrisy never shames leftists.
2) Your fact doesn’t fit the agenda, so will be ignored.

[GregoTX]

In 1651 Anthony Johnson owned 250 acres, and the services of four white and one black indentured servants.

I want reparations.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Anthony Johnson is not really a great example if you’re trying to make some sort of racial equality about slavery. Johnson himself (or, to be more precise, his heirs) lost all of his property because he was black. Upon his death, the state of Virginia seized his land, and a court stated that it could be seized because Johnson was a “negroe and by consequence an alien.”

[Delta 21]

So I can extrapolate that all blacks are racist because of this, right?

[Tupelo]

Actually that does not require very much extrapolation. Racism seems to be in their DNA. Much more so than in Caucasians.

[roadcat]

Upon his death, the state of Virginia seized his land, and a court stated that it could be seized because Johnson was a “negroe and by consequence an alien.”

And because the Commonwealth of Virginia pre-dated the U.S.A., it's not our country's fault. It's the British!

[DoodleDawg]

Did You Know the First Legal Slave Owner in America Was a Black Man?

Actually I'm betting it was some Spanish guy in what is now Florida.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

And because the Commonwealth of Virginia pre-dated the U.S.A., it's not our country's fault. It's the British!

But of course!

My mistake calling VA a state, for any number of reasons--the year in which the case took place and the fact that VA is a commonwealth, for starters. Was working on a motion in a criminal case in the other window, must have typed "the state" or some variation thereof 50 times in the past 10 minutes...

[I want the USA back]

I want reparations.

[bigdaddy45]

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

[gattaca]

bmp

[VRWCarea51]

Yup, 40 acres and a Mule.... oh and add in a Free Phone, House, electric, heat, food stamps, healthcare, cable, walking round money and lots of crab legs.

Stop the discrimination, stop it NOW!

[conservativejoy]

Something else that also gets overlooked is that warring tribes in Africa sold slaves to the traders. That is how the slave trade started. In some places, this is still going on, or so I’ve read.

[scooby321]

They still do and Muslim sells women as sex xlaves

[Mrs. Don-o]

" Racism seems to be in their [black people's] DNA. Much more so than in Caucasians."

I disagree. It's not a DNA thing and you'll find it in all races in different times and places. Not every individual of course, but it's common across the centuries, the continents and the cultures.

It's something we more or less have in common.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Yep I knew this but good luck getting a libeal to listen to you. If it doesnt fit their preconceived feelings, they shut you out. Never mind the facts!