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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.
John Punch (or John Ponce or, in the Latinate form, Johannes Poncius) [1] (1603–1661) was an Irish Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian.. Punch was ultimately responsible for the now classic formulation of Ockham's Razor, in the shape of the Latin phrase entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, "entities are not to be multiplied unnecessarily."
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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.
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 ...
The surname Punch may refer to: Gary Punch (born 1957), Australian politician; Jerry Punch (born 1953), American auto racing and college football commentator; John Punch (slave) (fl. 1630s), supposedly the first official slave in the English colonies; John Punch (theologian), 1603–1661), Irish Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian
John Leech (29 August 1817 – 29 October 1864) was a British caricaturist and illustrator. [1] He was best known for his work for Punch , a humorous magazine for a broad middle-class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with light social comedy.
John Perkins (died 27 January 1812), nicknamed Jack Punch, was a British Royal Navy officer. Perkins was perhaps the first mixed race commissioned officer in the Royal Navy. . He rose from obscurity to be a successful ship's captain in the Georgian Royal Na