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March 8
1655. John Casor becomes the first legally recognized slave for life in the country that will become the United States. In an incredible instance of irony, he is so declared as a result of a legal proceeding brought by his owner -- a freed black man named Anthony Johnson -- one of 20 black men brought to Jamestown in 1619 and who had obtained his freedom by 1623.
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