[PapaBear3625]

Another fun fact: the first man to hold a black African servant as a slave in the mainland American colonies was black. Anthony Johnson, a black African, came over on the first ship of colonists to land at Jamestown. An indentured servant, he was free after a few years, and bought his own black servants. For one of them, John Casor, he filed suit claiming that Casor should be his slave for life. The court found in Johnson's favor.

Thus, black slavery was instituted by a black colonist.

[Delhi Rebels]

Thus, black slavery was instituted by a black colonist.

That's an interesting story but unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your point of view, it isn't true. The first known case of court ordered indenture for life, aka slavery, occurred some time before that. And the owner was white.

"Whereas Hugh Gwyn hath . . . brought back from Maryland three servants formerly run away . . . the court doth . . . order [that] the first serve out their times with their master according to their indentures, . . . and that [the] third being a negro named John Punch shall serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural life here or elsewhere." - A Virginia Court Decision (1640) from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (January 1898), vol. 5, no. 3, p. 236.