Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African princess, Florida slave, plantation slaveowner

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, J...

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Main Author: Schafer, Daniel L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville ; Tallahassee ; Tampa ; Boca Raton ; Pensacola ; Orlando ; Miami ; Jacksonville ; Ft. Myers ; Sarasota University Press of Florida [2018]
Edition:Revised and expanded edition
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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
Physical Description:xii, 223 Seiten Illustrationen, 4 Karten, Portraits 23 cm
ISBN:9780813056531
0813056535

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