No images of Casor survive to the present day. Tobacco fields like this one, however, would have been what he saw daily. Wikimedia Commons The only date definitely connected to John Casor’s life ...

John Casor had come to Virginia around 1640, and had indentured himself to a landowner in Northampton County on the Eastern Shore. He served out his indenture, and then later brought suit against his ...

In colonial Virginia in 1654, a black man named John Casor became an answer to this trivia question: Who was the first man in the colonies to be legally declared a slave by the courts? But the ...