Johnson had served his debt to the man that bought him from a slave trader and subsequently became very wealthy. He was the first to declare one of his servants a slave for life as was the African tradition. It was a black man that brought lifetime slavery to the English colonies for the first time.
Anthony Johnson from 1655 enters the chat.
Johnson had served his debt to the man that bought him from a slave trader and subsequently became very wealthy. He was the first to declare one of his servants a slave for life as was the African tradition. It was a black man that brought lifetime slavery to the English colonies for the first time.