Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a man from Angola who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an "indentured servant" in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted land by the colony. [1] He later became a tobacco farmer in the Province of Maryland.

Dec 14, 2010 · Anthony Johnson was the first prominent black landholder in the English colonies. Johnson arrived in Virginia in 1621 aboard the James. It is uncertain if Johnson arrived as an indentured servant or as a slave, early records list him as “Antonio, a Negro.”

Mar 14, 2016 · White Supremacist groups have claimed that Anthony Johnson, a Black forced laborer who became free in 17th century Virginia, was the first legal slave owner in the British colonies that became the United States. That claim is historically false and misleading.

Aug 19, 2019 · Anthony Johnson arrived in Virginia in 1621. He farmed other people’s land in the new English colony before he acquired land of his own and wealth. He married Mary, had children — two daughters and two sons — and passed on his …

Anthony Johnson lived a long life when, in America, disease and violent death by cruel overseers and Indian attacks resulted in low life expectancies. Court records reveal that he had the...

Anthony Johnson was Virginia's earliest known African-American agricultural entrepreneur and is believed to have been the first black slaveowner in the Old Dominion.

Anthony Johnson, a native of Angola, arrived in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1621 under the name “Antonio, a negro”. It is unclear if he arrived as a slave or an indentured servant. Johnson worked on the Bennett tobacco plantation, surviving a massive Native American attack on the colony in 1622, and married his wife, Mary.