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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley : African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner / Daniel L. Schafer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schafer, Daniel L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kingsley, Anna, 1793-1870.
- Kingsley, Anna.
- Kingsley family.
- Enslaved women--Florida--Fort George Island--Biography.
- Enslaved women.
- Enslaved persons--Florida--Fort George Island--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Princesses--Senegal--Biography.
- Princesses.
- Women plantation owners--Florida--Fort George Island--Biography.
- Women plantation owners.
- African American women--Florida--Fort George Island--Biography.
- African American women.
- Plantation life--Florida--Fort George Island.
- Plantation life.
- Fort George Island (Fla.)--Biography.
- Fort George Island (Fla.).
- Senegal--Biography.
- Senegal.
- Florida--Fort George Island.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
- Summary:
- Anna Kingsley's life story adds a dramatic chapter to histories of the South, the state of Florida, and the African Diaspora. Both an American slave and a slaveowner and possibly an African princess. Anna was captured as a teenager in Senegal in 1806 and sold into slavery. Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr., a planter and slave trader from Spanish East Florida, bought her in Havana and took her to his St. Johns River plantation, where she soon became his household manager, his wife, and eventually the mother of four of his children.
- Contents:
- 1 Senegal: Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye 5
- 2 Havana: Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. 26
- 3 Laurel Grove: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley 39
- 4 The Patriot War 52
- 5 Fort George Island 64
- 6 Freedom in Peril: From Spanish to American Race Policies 78
- 7 The Island of Liberty 91
- 8 Anna Jai Returns to Florida 98
- 9 A Time of Race Hysteria 105
- 10 Against the Odds: A Free Black Community Forms in Rural Duval County 115
- 11 Final Flight: The American Civil War 133
- 12 Final Years 143
- 13 A Personal Postscript 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813056531
- 0813056535
- OCLC:
- 1030772053
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