"Antonio a Negro" was conveyed to America on the James in 1621 and sold to an Englishman in the pilgrim settlement of Jamestown. For almost 12 years he chipped away at a ranch for the Bennetts, a rich white gang. The Bennetts claimed Antonio however permitted him to ranch a little plot of area for himself, notwithstanding the work he did on the Bennett estate. There he in all probability developed tobacco and corn. He was additionally ready to claim a few head of steers while still a slave. In the early years in Virginia and Maryland, slaves were more like workers — not as a matter of course slaves forever — and Africans were regularly allowed a greater number of benefits than amid later years of bondage. Antonio wedded a dark lady named Mary
