| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index. |
| Contents |
The Kingsley Family, Charleston, and the American Revolution -- New Brunswick years: becoming an Atlantic trader -- "My saddle bags loaded with specie": Caribbean commerce in the age of revolution -- Shifting loyalties: St. Thomas and the transit trade in African slaves -- "Fortune is neither to be won by prudence nor industry": a slaving voyage to East Africa -- Family ties: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley -- Laurel Grove Plantation, slavery, and East Florida's booming economy -- "Left by the patriots a perfect desert": the Patriot War in East Florida -- "Like a turtle without a shell": Spain's final years in East Florida -- "Discreetly restrained under the patriarchal system": life and labor at Kingsley's plantations -- "The door of liberty is open to every slave who can find the means of purchasing himself": from Spanish to American race relations -- "In trust for Flora Hanahan Kingsley and her son Charles": Kingsley as Patriarch -- The "Island of Liberty" and Kingsley's final journeys -- "To do good in this world we must have money": the Kingsley legacy. |
| Summary |
A biography of Zephaniah Kingsley Jr., merchant, African slave trader, ship captain, plantation owner, slave master, miscegenist, polygamist, and, later, partial supporter of abolition and founder of a colony in Haiti for free persons of color. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Kingsley, Z. (Zephaniah), 1765-1843.
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Kingsley, Z. (Zephaniah), 1765-1843. |
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Kingsley family.
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Kingsley family. |
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Slavery -- Florida.
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Slavery. |
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Florida. |
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Slave trade -- United States -- History.
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Slave trade. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schafer, Daniel L. Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world 9780813044620 (DLC) 2013020093 (OCoLC)827841512 |
| ISBN |
9780813048529 (electronic book) |
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0813048524 (electronic book) |
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9780813044620 |
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0813044626 |
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