Mary sends this in, in relation to the case she mentioned in our last discussion:

Here's a link to the wikipedia page for Anthony Johnson, the African immigrant who, it is claimed "owned the first legal slave in Virginia"--though Johnson's own property was seized by the government at his death since he was never and could not be a citizen.  I couldn't find the link to any of the pages that I had seen that has sensationalized this (and I know at least one claimed that "slavery in the United States was started by a Black Man").  This is all fascinating (and deeply disturbing) to me--particularly in light of our discussion about America as a white supremacist nation and maybe even in the context of exceptionalism.

Anyway, here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)