In 1653, John Casor, a black indentured servant whose contract Johnson appeared to have bought in the early 1640s, approached Captain Goldsmith, claiming his indenture had expired seven years earlier and that he was being held illegally by Johnson. A neighbor, Robert Parker, intervened and persuaded Johnson to free Casor.
Though Casor was the first person declared a slave in a civil case, there were both black and white indentured servants sentenced to lifetime servitude before him.
It's a touching story of a black man who comes to the New World as an indentured servant, earns his freedom, and enslaves his fellow black man in the first ever civil where someone is enslaved.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
