edit: [url=http://tatoott1009.com/2013/07/19/first-slave-owner-in-the-us-was-black/]Here is another source.[/url] The first slave owner in the US* was a black man. Slavery was not about race, but about economics. A plantation owner makes more money if he doesn't have to pay his workers. Something fun: Ancestry.com claims that Obama is a descendent of the first slave in America. *-original colonies included.