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Brief Summary: Anthony Johnson's Life In Virginia

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Antony Johnson, according to history, is said to have arrived in Virginia particularly 1621. Most people were referring to him simply as “Antonio a Negro”. In the same year, the overseers from Warresquioake in the location of James River bought him as a slaver worker in their tobacco plantation firms. Being a seventeenth century Virginian slave, Anthony Johnson had no surname. In accordance to the law of that time, if he was able to convert to Christianity and document his Christianity practices, Johnson could have sued successfully for his freedom. Due to hardship of life and mistreatment of blacks, Johnson settled in Bennett plantation where he was only concerned with seeking providing for his survival but not his legal identity. Despite

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