Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
First Africans in Virginia. "Landing Negroes at Jamestown from Dutch man-of-war, 1619". This 1901 illustration's caption is incorrect, as The White Lion was an English privateer operating under a Dutch letter of marque, and landed at nearby Old Point Comfort. The first Africans in Virginia were a group of "twenty and odd" captive persons ...
e. Slavery in Virginia began with the capture and enslavement of Native Americans during the early days of the English Colony of Virginia and through the late eighteenth century. They primarily worked in tobacco fields. Africans were first brought to colonial Virginia in 1619, when 20 Africans from present-day Angola arrived in Virginia aboard ...
William Tucker was born near Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia c. 1624, [3] and appears on the Virginia Muster of 1624/5, the first comprehensive census made in North America. [4] His parents were Isabell and Anthony, African indentured servants. [1][3] When he was born, there were 22 Africans in the colony, most of whom arrived in 1619. [1]
He held two black indentured servants, Isabell and Anthoney, who were among the first Africans in Virginia, arriving between 1619 and 1624, when their son William Tucker was born. He was the first African American child to be born in the Thirteen Colonies. [6] He had 17 servants. [6] In 1625, he owned three African slaves.
Anthony Johnson (colonist) An African man indentured in Maryland who amassed sizable landholding and had indentured servants and enslaved people in the 1600s. Anthony Johnson (c. 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom ...
John Punch (c. 1605 - c. 1650) was a Central African resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first enslaved person. [2] [3]Thought to have been an indentured servant, Punch attempted to escape to Maryland and was sentenced in July 1640 by the Virginia Governor's Council to serve as a slave for the remainder of his life.
John Casor (surname also recorded as Cazara and Corsala), [1] a servant in Northampton County in the Colony of Virginia, in 1655 became one of the first people of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be enslaved for life as a result of a civil suit. In 1662, the Virginia Colony passed a law incorporating the principle of partus sequitur ...
John Graweere. John Graweere also known as John Gowen (ca. 1615–living 1641) [a] was one of the First Africans in Virginia, who was a servant who earned enough money to pay for his son's freedom. He filed a lawsuit to free his son, arguing that he wanted to raise him as a Christian. The court agreed and freed the son.