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Four years and this guy got life? oldest story of time. this was the beginning of slavery. he was black. this is the beginning of the real, real nightmare that took a long time to get out. back here, these guys. over here, here is anthony again. he has his indentured servants. well, anthony's slave was john caster. john caster, who is also black, complained to a court that anthony had unfairly extended his terms of servitude. the court emancipated caster and said you are a free man. you can go. but anthony went back and tried to convince a court that caster belonged to him and should be his fo...

The horrific nature of 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...

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 ...

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 ...