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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley : African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
- Title
- Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley : African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner / Daniel L. Schafer.
- Author
- Schafer, Daniel L.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- xii, 223 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Kingsley, Anna, 1793-1870
- Kingsley family
- Enslaved women > Florida > Fort George Island > Biography
- Enslaved persons > Florida > Fort George Island > Biography
- Princesses > Senegal > Biography
- Women plantation owners > Florida > Fort George Island > Biography
- African American women > Florida > Fort George Island > Biography
- Plantation life > Florida > Fort George Island
- African American women
- Plantation life
- Princesses
- Enslaved persons
- Women plantation owners
- Enslaved women
- Fort George Island (Fla.) > Biography
- Senegal > Biography
- Florida > Fort George Island
- Senegal
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Senegal: Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye -- 2. Havana: Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. -- 3. Laurel Grove: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley -- 4. The Patriot War -- 5. Fort George Island -- 6. Freedom in Peril: From Spanish to American Race Policies -- 7. The Island of Liberty -- 8. Anna Jai Returns to Florida -- 9. A Time of Race Hysteria -- 10. Against the Odds: A Free Black Community Forms in Rural Duval County -- 11. Final Flight: The American Civil War -- 12. Final Years -- 13. A Personal Postscript -- Appendix A: Anna Kingsley and the Ndiaye Dynasty of the Kingdom of Jolof -- Appendix B: The Last Will and Testament of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-213
- ISBN
- 9780813056531
- 0813056535
- LCCN
- 2017946585
- OCLC
- 1030772053
- Author
- Schafer, Daniel L., author.
- Title
- Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley : African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner / Daniel L. Schafer.
- Publisher
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-213