you begin to see racial differences in treatment here with this case where victor and james gregory were made to serve their original owner one additional year in the colony of virginia for three years, john koch was made to serve his owners and his owners assigned wherever they live for the rest of his life. >> and he was black. >> he was black, he is referenced as african in this record. you have another case that turns out different in 1666 where you have a woman by the name of elizabeth key and she had a mother of african descent and a father named thomas key who is of english dissent and rather prominent. in english law, traditionally, everything goes through the father and she had been baptized as a christian. so there were restrictions on how christians could be held in bondage, the type of bondage they could be held in and thomas key made arrangements for his daughter that after he died, if she was under the age of 18, she served in this family and be considered free at the age of 18. however, a great deal of time had passed since her 18th birthday, she sued for her freedom on th

victor a did you haveman, and james gregory, a scotchman. so they ran from virginia to maryland. they were caught and returned to virginia. they all committed the same crime. they were runaways. they were caught together. they did the same thing. but you begin to see racial differences in treatment with this case where victor and james gregory were made to serve their original owner one additional year in the colony of virginia for three years. john ponch was played to serve his owner and his heirs for the rest of his natural life wherever they lived. >> and john punch was black. >> he was black. he is referenced as african in this record. but then you have another case that turns out a little different. in 1656, where you have a woman by the flaname of elizabeth key. she had a mother who was of african-american descent and a father named thomas key of english descent and rather prominent. and english law traditionally, everything goes through the father. and she had been bam tiptized a christian. so there were restrictions on how christians could be held in bondage, the type of