• John Punch (born 1605) was an African resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first slave. Thought to have been an indentured servant, Punch...
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  • John Punch may refer to: John Punch (slave) (1605–?), believed to be the first African slave in what would later be the United States John Punch (theologian)...
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  • football commentator John Punch (slave) (fl. 1630s), supposedly the first official slave in the English colonies John Punch (theologian), 1603–1661),...
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  • was a British colonist who owned the first document slave in the Colony of Virginia, John Punch, and who served several terms in the Virginia House of...
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    Slavery (redirect from Slave labor)
    to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in...
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    deported, virtually defining slaves as all people of African descent who remained in the colony. Most historians argue that John Punch, an African who was ordered...
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    Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. However, The first "documented slave for life", John Punch, lived in Virginia but was held by Hugh Gwyn, a white man, not...
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  • One-Punch Man (Japanese: ワンパンマン, Hepburn: Wanpanman) is a Japanese superhero manga series created by One. It tells the story of Saitama, a superhero who...
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    government. Colonists now began purchasing slaves in larger numbers. 1640: Virginia courts sentence John Punch to lifetime slavery, marking the earliest...
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    mixed-race slaves and slave children showed that white men had often taken advantage of slave women. Wealthy planter widowers, notably such as John Wayles...
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    Nat Turner (category 19th-century American slaves)
    the man who held Nat and his family as slaves, called the infant Nat in his records. Even when grown, the slave was known simply as Nat; but after the...
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  • Mary and Anthony Johnson (1600–1670) Dangerfield Newby (c. 1820–1859) John Punch (fl. 1630s, living 1640) Gabriel Prosser (1776–1800) William Tucker (born...
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    him. Many historians describe indentured servant John Punch as the first documented slave (or slave for life) in America as punishment for escaping his...
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  • Sucker Punch is a 2011 American psychological fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder and co-written by Snyder and Steve Shibuya. It is Snyder's first...
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    The coastwise slave trade existed along the southern and eastern coastal areas of the United States in the antebellum years prior to 1861. Hundreds of...
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  • John Wayles (January 31, 1715 – May 28, 1773) was a colonial American planter, slave trader and lawyer in colonial Virginia. He is historically best known...
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    Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831...
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  • The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 (formally entitled An act concerning Servants and Slaves), were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House...
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  • The Committee's Punch Bowl is a small tarn on the continental divide straddling the border between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia...
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    John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states...
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    punishment for running away to Maryland. Many historians consider Punch the "first official slave in the English colonies," and his case as the "first legal...
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    also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a slave breeding farm, as well as a holding facility, or slave jail, located in Richmond, Virginia, just three...
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    Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth...
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  • John Armfield (1797–1871) was an American slave trader. He was the co-founder of Franklin & Armfield, "the largest slave trading firm" in the United States...
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    incarcerated in Nashville for slave stealing, his mother, wife, and two children lived in the vicinity of Denmark, Tennessee. John A. Murrell had his first...
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    Complicity in the Slave Trade". CounterPunch.org. August 7, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2021. "Framing Irish Complicity in the Slave Trade". REBEL. July...
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  • president of the United States, owned more than 600 slaves during his adult life. Jefferson freed two slaves while he lived, and five others were freed after...
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    imported diseases, Europeans quickly turned to importing slaves from Africa, primarily to work on slave plantations that produced cash crops. The enslavement...
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    Africans, numbering roughly 20-strong, had been seized from the Portuguese slave ship São João Bautista by the crew of White Lion as the slaver was transporting...
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    one "John Tyler" (presumably his father) owned eight slaves in Richmond, and possibly five slaves in adjoining Henrico County, and possibly 26 slaves in...
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