Can you formulate a concise answer to this question?
Was Johnson vs Parker a first case in the colonies that recognized a person
as a "property' of another person?
The case of Punch was a punishment for violating an Indenture Contract.

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 6:23 AM Kimball, Gregg <
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> There are a few premises in the initial post that I would consider suspect,
> but I'm sure better scholars on the list will weigh in. I hope they will,
> because a few of these assumptions have troubled me for some time.
>
> How can we consider the "20 and odd" Africans who arrived in Virginia in
> 1619 as "indentured servants with time restricted contracts" if they were
> taken from a Spanish slave ship by English raiders and traded in the
> colony?
>
> Do we know that there were "no laws regarding slavery for life" anywhere in
> Britain and its colonies? I ask that because we seem to assume that a lack
> of statutes means "no law," but British law, as I understand it, was
> largely based on the common law.
>
> Can we EVER assume a "first" in terms of the law of slavery in Virginia
> given the massive loss of early records?
>
> Gregg
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 7:58 AM Boris Sokolovsky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Since there were no laws regarding slavery for life(all "slaves" were
> > brought in as indentured servants with time restricted contracts)  what
> was
> > the first established by law case of slavery?
> > Many resources point at the Johnson vs Parker case.
> > Can you clarify the issue?
> >
> > 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
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Boris Sokolovsky
> > > Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2019 3:14 PM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: [VA-HIST] John Casor
> > >
> > > Was John Casor one of the first legal black slave?
> > >
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