In 1640, John Punch, a Black-American indentured servant, received a sentence of lifelong servitude for his act of fleeing with two white indentured servants. The two white servants were given an additional four years of servitude as punishment. Punch’s case served as the starting point for the establishment of race-based slavery through legal means in Virginia.

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