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In Alfred T. Vaughan's "Blacks in Virginia". A note on the first decade located in the William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul, 1972) 469-478, he writes that little is known about the status of black slaves until about 1630. However, there is a little evidence from 1619-1629 that give some, yet not vivid detail on those early years of slavery. Mr. Vaughan uses mostly primary resources for his argument. Those resources consist of letters from John Rolfe , accounts of court entries, and the census of 1624-1625.
According to letters written by John Rolfe to Sir Edwin Sandys, Rolfe describes the arrival of a Dutch soldier that sold the governor twenty negros. To Rolfe they were no different than white-indentured servants. That would be the first and last reference towards blacks until 1624. There is also court entries in which a black man by the name of Anthony Johnston, who imported blacks into Virginia in the mid 1620's, and made clear that not all blacks arrived in Virginia......

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