In some ways he was a lucky man. To be sure, finding yourself in bondage on a Virginia tobacco plantation was not the result of good luck, but Anthony Johnson would rise above his low status and ...

In 1665, Anthony Johnson moved to Maryland and leased a 300-acre plantation, where he died five years later. But back in Virginia that same year, a jury decided the land Johnson left behind could ...

The family of Anthony Johnson Jr. — who died in Tarrant County Jail custody last year — is trying to keep Tarrant County on as a defendant in their lawsuit against the county and 15 jailers.