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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From: Boris Sokolovsky
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Was John Casor one of the first legal black slave?

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