Yes and the man who petitioned the Virginia legislature to be permitted to own slaves was himself black. That tidbit never makes it into the history books.
Yes, that was Anthony Johnson, who was on the first group of Blacks to arrive in Virginia as an indentured servant (in the beginning, servants became free after 7 years).
As a free Black, Johnson successfully argued in court that his black servant, John Casor, should be deemed a slave for life, thus instituting chattel slavery in Virginia