Black Man Was First Slave Owner? Anthony Johnson | Black History |

Black History | Anthony Johnson Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a black slave from Angola who achieved freedom in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia and was granted land by the colony. Johnson had several white indentured servants and a black male slave. Anthony Johnson was one of the first people in Virginia to win the right to legally own black slaves, but he was not the first slave owner. Black Seeds: The History of Africans in America Vol. 1 |