Thank you. Didn't that case establish that slave legally was a "property"
of the slave owner? Was there any other precedent like that?

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:11 PM Paul Heinegg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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