A bizarre historic fact about slavery

According to List Universe, the first official slave owner in Virginia — the one who brought a lawsuit that made slavery a recognized practice in that state in 1654 — was a black man who contended that his black indentured servant was, in fact a slave.

This tidbit shouldn’t really be that surprising.  First, slavery seems to be as old as humankind itself and, second, according to the same list, Africa has as old a history of slavery as any other nation (and sadly, it’s also home to a significant number of the world’s modern slaves).