Asclepias
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Thats been debunked soundly and emphatically about a million times House. Hugh Gwyn was the first slave owner. Sorry.
Coincidentally the POTUS mother is descended from John Punch who became the first slave. So was Ralph Bunche.
John Punch (slave) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For this reason, historians consider John Punch the "first official slave in the English colonies,"[4] and his case as the "first legal sanctioning of lifelong slavery in the Chesapeake."[5] Historians also consider this to be one of the first legal distinctions between Europeans and Africans made in the colony,[6] and his case a key milestone in the development of the institution of slavery in the United States.