Anthony Johnson
Indentured servant, farmer, slaveholder in colonial Virginia · Lived 1600 to 1670 · aged 70
Anthony Johnson was a free Black 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.
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Deceased
Dates
Lived 1600 to 1670 · aged 70