| Description |
xiv, 177 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index. |
| 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 |
Senegal: Anta Majigeen N diaye -- Havana: Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr. -- Laurel Grove: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley -- The Patriot War -- Fort George Island -- Refuge in Haiti and return to Florida -- A free Black community in a time of race hysteria -- Final Flight: The American Civil War -- Final years -- A personal postscript -- Appendix: The last will and testament of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley. |
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Kingsley, Anna, 1793-1870.
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Kingsley, Anna, 1793-1870. |
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Enslaved women -- Florida -- Fort George Island -- Biography.
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Enslaved women. |
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Florida -- Fort George Island. |
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Biographies.
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Enslaved persons -- Florida -- Fort George Island -- Biography.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Princesses -- Senegal -- Biography.
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Princesses. |
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Senegal. |
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Women plantation owners -- Florida -- Fort George Island -- Biography.
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Women plantation owners. |
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African American women -- Florida -- Fort George Island -- Biography.
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African American women. |
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Kingsley family.
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Kingsley family. |
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Plantation life -- Florida -- Fort George Island.
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Plantation life. |
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Fort George Island (Fla.) -- Biography.
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Senegal -- Biography.
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Kingsley, Anna Madgigine Jai. |
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Kingsley (Family) |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0813026164 |
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