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John Punch (c. 1605 – c. 1650) was an Angolan-born resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first legally enslaved person in British colonial America under criminal law. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In contrast, John Casor became the first legally enslaved person of the colonies under civil law, having committed no crime.
Though Casor was the first person who was declared an enslaved person in a civil case, there were both black and white indentured servants sentenced to lifetime servitude before him. Many historians describe indentured servant John Punch as the first documented slave (or slave for life) in America as punishment for escaping his captors in 1640 ...
In 1640, indentured servants John Punch ("a negro"), Victor ("a Dutchman"), and James Gregory ("a Scotchman") fled their master Gwyn. The three were captured and returned to Gwyn. [12] The General Court of Virginia ruled that all three be whipped, but Punch would be Gwyn's slave for life as punishment for escaping. [13]
Most historians argue that John Punch, an African who was ordered indentured for life in 1640, should be considered the first documented slave in Virginia. Punch had escaped along with two white indentured servants, one from the United Provinces and the other from Scotland. When they were captured, all three were sentenced to whippings.
Social media videos and blog posts periodically describe a story of a heinous concentration camp made up of newly freed African Americans along the Mississippi Delta in the 1860s. Historians ...
The first documented "enslaved" African, in what was to become the US, probably originated from modern day Cameroon and was imported into the colonial United States to serve as a slave John Punch. Punch arrived in Virginia in about 1640.
The Crown’s fifth season has arrived—and with it a lot of questions about just how historically accurate this chapter of the show really is. Obviously, The Crown is a work of fiction based in ...
John Punch (theologian) (1603–1661), Irish theologian This page was last edited on 7 June 2024, at 07:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...