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Anthony Johnson

Birthdate:
Birthplace: England
Death: 1670 (65-74)
Maryland, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of James Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson
Husband of Mary Jane Johnson
Father of Richard Johnson

Managed by: Sabrina Kaye Farr
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About Anthony Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_%28colonist%29

Anthony Johnson was born in Angola and brought to the US to work on a tobacco farm in 1619, technically as an indentured servant. He married a black female servant while on the farm and once freed, maintained his own successful farm with 250 acres and both black and Irish indentured servants. Johnson is best known for not only being one of the first black slave masters, but also for having the court rule in favor of him “holding” slave John Casor indefinitely. This was the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who had committed no crime could be held in servitude for life.

http://mdroots.thinkport.org/library/anthonyjohnson.asp

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Anthony Johnson's Timeline

1600
1600
England
1632
1632
Bilsby, Lincolnshire, England
1670
1670
Age 70
Maryland, United States