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Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator

Title
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world [electronic resource] : slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator / Daniel L. Schafer.
Author
Schafer, Daniel L.
Publication
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2013.

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Description
1 online resource (xiv, 336 p.) : illustrations, map.
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.
Uniform Title
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world (Online)
Alternative Title
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world (Online)
Subject
  • Kingsley, Z. 1765-1843
  • Kingsley family
  • Slavery > Florida
  • Slave trade > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-324) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2013020093
OCLC
ssj0001041807
Author
Schafer, Daniel L.
Title
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world [electronic resource] : slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator / Daniel L. Schafer.
Imprint
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-324) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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