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Anthony Johnson

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Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) brought as an indentured servant from Angola and manumitted in the Colony of Virginia, became the first black man to own another black man in servitude for life, before moving to the Province of Maryland. He has been referred to as "'the black patriarch' of the first community of Negro property owners in America".

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