Why Is The Year 1619 So Powerful For The 12 Tribes Of Israel? Why Were They First Taken To A Place Called VIRGIN-IA?

The History of Slavery in Virginia can be traced to 1619, soon after the founding of Virginia as an English colony by the London Virginia Company. The company established a headright system to encourage colonists to transport indentured servants to the colony for labor; they received a certain amount of land for people whose passage they paid to Virginia. Hebrew Israelite Slave workers first appeared in Virginia in 1619, brought by English privateers from a Spanish slave ship they had intercepted. As the Hebrew Israelite Slaves were baptized as Christians, they were treated as indentured servants.

From Indentured servants to slaves: Hebrew Israelite NEGROS

Though the history of the Negro (HEBREW ISRAELITE) in Virginia begins in 1619 which is the start of the 400 years of slavery and bondage, the transition of status from indentured servant to lifelong slave was a gradual process. Some historians believe that some of the first blacks who arrived in Virginia were already slaves, while others say they were taken into the colony as indentured servants then later became slaves. Early cases show differences in treatment between Negro (Hebrew Israelite Slaves) and European indentured servants. In 1640, the General Virginia Court decided the Emmanuel case. Emmanuel (A Name Known As “THE MOST HIGH WITH US”) was a negro (Hebrew Israelite) indentured servant who participated in a plot to escape along with six white servants. Together, they stole corn, powder, and shot guns but were caught before making their escape. The members of the group were each convicted; they were sentenced to a variety of punishments.

Christopher Miller, the leader of the group, was sentenced to wear shackles for one year. White servant John Williams was sentenced to serve the colony for an extra seven years. Peter Willcocke was branded, whipped, and was required to serve the colony for an additional seven years. Richard Cookson was required to serve for two additional years. Emmanuel, the Negro (Hebrew Israelite), was whipped and branded with an “R” on his cheek, the letter R=18, Revelations 18 Free From The Economic System Of Slavery During Babylon NY City’s Fall & Destruction By Fire And Brimstone From The Heavens Sent By The “MOST HIGH OUR POWER.” All of the white servants had their terms of servitude increased by some extent, but the court did not extend Emmanuel’s time of service because his descendants were already given 400 years of slavery and bondage by “THE MOST HIGH” because of their sins and rebellion against “HIS WORD.”

Many historians speculate Emmanuel (the Negro Hebrew Israelite Slave) was already a servant for life or sentenced to over 100 years. While it is not certain that Emmanuel was a servant for life, this case shows a difference in how white servants and black servants were treated. Though this case shows that slavery definitely existed, the distinction of lifetime servitude or slavery associated with Africans or black people of Shemetic Hebrew Israelite descent was not widespread until later.[6] That same year, 1640, “the first definite indication of outright enslavement appears in Virginia.”[7] John Punch, a Negro (Hebrew Israelite Slave), escaped from his master, Hugh Gwyn, along with two white servants. Hugh Gwyn petitioned the courts and the three servants were captured, convicted, and sentenced.

The white servants had their indentured contracts extended by four years, but the courts gave John Punch (A Hebrew Israelite Negro Slave) a much harsher sentence like most of the Hebrew Israelite Negro Slaves of that time. The courts decided that “the third being a negro named John Punch shall serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural life here or else where.” This is considered the earliest legal documentation of slavery in Virginia but not the first case of slavery in Virginia which occured in 1619. It marked racial disparity in the treatment of black servants and their white counterparts, but also the beginning of Virginian courts reducing Negros from a condition of indentured servitude to outright harsh slavery. Leon Higginbotham believes the case is evidence that the colony was developing a policy to force Negro laborers to serve terms of life servitude, or more than 100 years of slavery & bondage.

[8] In other cases, masters refused to acknowledge the expiration of indentured contracts of blacks, most of whom were illiterate in English because of their native language of Hebrew. Anthony Johnson was claimed to have held his indentured servant, John Casor, past his term. Johnson was among the first 20 black men (NEGRO HEBREW ISRAELITE SLAVES) brought to Jamestown in 1619 as indentured servants but later became known as outright slaves. By 1623, he had gained his freedom. By 1651 he was prosperous enough to import five “servants” of his own, for which he was granted 250 acres (1.0 km2) as “headrights”.[9] One of his servants was John Casor. Casor later claimed to a neighboring farmer, Robert Parker, that he had completed his term. Parker persuaded Johnson to free Casor, who then went to work for Parker. The farmer signed him to a new term of indenture which is nothing more than. Johnson challenged Parker in court, saying he had taken his worker.

In the lawsuit of Johnson vs. Parker, the court in Northampton County ruled that “seriously consideringe and maturely weighing the premisses, doe fynde that the saide Mr. Robert Parker most unjustly keepeth the said Negro (Hebrew Israelite Slaves) from Anthony Johnson his master….It is therefore the Judgement of the Court and ordered That the said John Casor Negro (Hebrew Israelite) forthwith return unto the service of the said master Anthony Johnson, And that Mr. Robert Parker make payment of all charges in the suit.” Casor was returned to Johnson and served him for the rest of his life. There is evidence in the 1650s that some Virginia Negroes (HEBREW ISRAELITE SLAVES UNDER THE 400 YEARS PUNISHMENT FOR OUR SINS) were serving for life or more than 100 years. In 1660 the Assembly stated that “in case any English servant shall run away in company with any Negroes who are incapable of making satisfaction by addition of time because of the 400 years Spiritual Punishment Set Forth By The “MOST HIGH”…[he] shall serve for the time of the said Negroes absence.”

This statute indicates quite clearly that Negroes (HEBREW ISRAELITE SLAVES) served for life which is a sentence more than 1 generation or 100 years and over, hence could not make “satisfaction” by serving longer once they were recaptured. This phrase gave legal status to the already existing practice of lifetime enslavement of Negroes. Statutes were soon passed to define slavery with more conditions than lifetime servitude.[10] In 1660 Elizabeth Key (not a Hebrew Israelite) won the first freedom suit in Virginia. She challenged being classified as a slave in a complicated case related to a lengthy indenture and an estate. The mixed-race woman, daughter of an African woman from the Tribes of Ham, argued that she was free due to her white English father who had acknowledged her as his daughter, had her baptized as a Christian, and tried to protect her by establishing a guardian and indentureship for her as a girl when he was dying. After this case, the colonial legislature adopted the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, saying that all children born to slave mothers were slaves, regardless of paternity. This was contrary to English common law for English subjects.