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And his race. well, he wasn't considered a slave. he was indentured servant. he worked in virginia on a tobacco form. his master allowed him to perfect skills on his own plot of land. in that time, he married and had four children. after all of the years, antonio finally negotiated and bought his own freedom. so, he gave money to this man. he bought his own freedom. that's when he decided that he was going to become an owner. he changed his name to anthony johnson. in 1640, anthony and his wife bought a plot of land and hired not slaves, because there weren't slaifrs yet. he -- slaves yet. he ...

Anthony was, well, anthony was doing all these things. there was a court case involving three indentured servants who had escaped. there were three. and here, there are two white guys. and a black guy. got it? this is different than anthony, who is over here. now, these guys ran away. they escaped. they were caught. two of them had the servitude extended by four years and the third one had it extended for life. can you guess which one got life? which means you no longer can buy your freedom, so you in effect become a slave. this one. are you asking the same question i asked? why did these guys...

Things you have to look for. this is the formula of good and evil. good when they're set against each other and they use the checks and balances. and evil when they collude. commerce, religion, government, science. we saw it here. 17th century, just to recap. religion, enslave non-christians, it's not color. then the government ordered a black man to life enslavement, our first real slave. the court reverses immenacepation of johnson slaf -- immenacepation of johnson slave, a black man who owns the first black slave in america. it was the government that did it. virginia, now a crisis because ...

Servitude and move toward freedom, because people's dollars were at stake, they went the other way. you know what is strange here i think this is actually our first tea party. the master was take toog much from the people. first time we saw the attitude of manifest destiny as well. they could do anything. they could take the land from the servants. in 1662, virginia took one of the last steps on the road to true evil and enacted a law saying all children born in the colony to slave mother would be enslaved. so now, not only were you a slave for the rest of your life, now that slave passed it o...

You know tubman. you read about her, but do you know everything else around it? she's a devout christian. one of the best known conductors of the underground railroad. this woman is a hero, miraculous. miraculous. she not only escaped, she went back in and escorted 300 slaves to freedom. if i'm not mistaken -- i hate to speak out -- you think she went back for her husband and her husband was with another woman and she was like you're staying there. she moved on. born in slavery in maryland. she married a free slave. escaped to the north. risked everything, returned to the south to save her fam...