Interesting Facts About the U.S.A

6th on  21 interesting Facts About the U.S.A: America’s firstslave owner was ablack man.

Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia after serving his term of indenture. He became one of the first property owners and slaveholders of African birth there. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years, and was granted land by the colony.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)