Bamako sur Seine
9 maart 2007, 05:40
Il s'agit de Mr Anthony Johnson de Northampton en Virginie. Son
esclave se nommait John Casor, le premier esclave �* vie.
Les deux étaient noirs....
http://www.macleans.ca/homepage/magazine/article.jsp?content=20070319_103231_103231
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, Ervin L.
Jordan, Jr., (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1995)
pp. 218-219
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1013548/posts
"In 1650 there were only 300 negroes in Virginia, about one percent
of the population. They weren't slaves any more than the approximately
4,000 white indentured servants working out their loans for passage
money to Virginia, and who were granted 50 acres each when freed from
their indentures, so they could raise their own tobacco.
Slavery was established in 1654 when Anthony Johnson, Northampton
County, convinced the court that he was entitled to the lifetime
services of John Casor, a negro. This was the first judicial approval
of life servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
But who was Anthony Johnson, winner of this epoch-making decision?
Anthony Johnson was a negro himself, one of the original 20 brought to
Jamestown (1619) and 'sold' to the colonists. By 1623 he had earned
his freedom and by 1651, was prosperous enough to import five
'servants' of his own, for which he received a grant of 250 acres as
'headrights.'
esclave se nommait John Casor, le premier esclave �* vie.
Les deux étaient noirs....
http://www.macleans.ca/homepage/magazine/article.jsp?content=20070319_103231_103231
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, Ervin L.
Jordan, Jr., (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1995)
pp. 218-219
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1013548/posts
"In 1650 there were only 300 negroes in Virginia, about one percent
of the population. They weren't slaves any more than the approximately
4,000 white indentured servants working out their loans for passage
money to Virginia, and who were granted 50 acres each when freed from
their indentures, so they could raise their own tobacco.
Slavery was established in 1654 when Anthony Johnson, Northampton
County, convinced the court that he was entitled to the lifetime
services of John Casor, a negro. This was the first judicial approval
of life servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
But who was Anthony Johnson, winner of this epoch-making decision?
Anthony Johnson was a negro himself, one of the original 20 brought to
Jamestown (1619) and 'sold' to the colonists. By 1623 he had earned
his freedom and by 1651, was prosperous enough to import five
'servants' of his own, for which he received a grant of 250 acres as
'headrights.'