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Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world : slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator
- Title
- Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world : slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator / Daniel L. Schafer.
- Author
- Schafer, Daniel L.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 14-471 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 336 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-471
- ISBN
- 9780813044620 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0813044626 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013020093
- OCLC
- 827841512
- Author
- Schafer, Daniel L.
- Title
- Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world : slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator / Daniel L. Schafer.
- Imprint
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-324) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-471ITL 13-7659