No, but he may have been the first slave owned by a former slave.
Casor sued for his freedom from former slave Anthony Johnson in Northampton
County, Virginia, in 1653, but Johnson insisted that "hee had ye Negro for
his life" [Orders, Deeds, Wills, 1651-54, 226].
John Casor/ Cazara travelled with the Johnson family to Somerset County,
Maryland, where he recorded his livestock mark in court, with the consent of
Anthony's widow Mary Johnson [Archives of Maryland, 54:760-1].
He was a witness (signing) to her power of attorney by which she assigned
her son John Johnson authority over her property in Virginia [Somerset
County Judicial Record, 1671-75, 159-62].
Paul
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Was John Casor one of the first legal black slave?
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