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Runaway Enslaved People and Indentured Servants in Colonial Virginia
The third servant, “a negro named John Punch,” was punished differently. Rather than add on additional years, he was enslaved for life. Scholars have argued that this decision represents the first legal distinction between Europeans and Africans to be made by Virginia courts.
John Punch (slave) - Wikipedia
John Punch (c. 1605 - c. 1650) was a Central African resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first slave. Thought to have been an indentured servant, Punch attempted to escape to Maryland and was sentenced in July 1640 by the Virginia Governor's Council to serve as a slave for the remainder of his life. Two European men who ran away ...
John Punch Wasn't the First Slave in America - History News Network
Researchers should have identified the “colonies,” because the date they named for the first slave -- 1640, when John Punch was sentenced to a lifetime of perpetual slavery in Virginia -- was...
Slavery and the Making of America . The Slave Experience ... - THIRTEEN
John Punch is one of the first servants on record to be sentenced to slavery on the grounds of race. However, he was neither the first nor the last black man to...
John Punch - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help
African indentured servant John Punch became the first Black man in Virginia to be sentenced to slavery for life. The court imposed this punishment in 1640 after Punch tried to escape his labor contract.
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