It is a historical FACT that the first slaveowner in the English-speaking New World was a black man that came here as an indentured servant. Once he had worked off his debt,became free,and started a farm on the land given to him for free,he imported another black man to the Virginia Colony as an indentured servant,and then refused to free him after he had worked the agreed-upon time. Even went to court to keep from freeing the servant,and the servant became the first slave in the English speaking New World.