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Schafer, Daniel L.

Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley : African princess, Florida slave, plantation slaveowner / Daniel L. Schafer. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2003. - xiv, 177 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index.

Senegal: Anta Majigeen N diaye -- Havana: Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr. -- Laurel Grove: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley -- The Patriot War -- Fort George Island -- Refuge in Haiti and return to Florida -- A free Black community in a time of race hysteria -- Final Flight: The American Civil War -- Final years -- A personal postscript -- Appendix: The last will and testament of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley.

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.

Charlton Tebeau Book Award (Florida Historical Society), 2004

ISBN: 0813026164 9780813026169 9780813035543 0813035546

LCCN: 2002033372

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA3Y3595 bnb

Subjects--Personal Names:
Kingsley, Anna, 1793-1870.
Kingsley family.
Kingsley, Anna Madgigine Jai.
Kingsley (Family)
Kingsley, Anna, 1793-1870
Kingsley family.
Kingsley.
Ndiaye.
Baxter.
Gibbs.
McNeill.
Mocs.
Sammis.
Kingsley, Anna Madgigine Jai, ca1793-1870.
Kingsley , fam.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women slaves--Florida--Fort George Island--Biography.
Slaves--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.
15.80 history of Africa.
15.85 history of America.
African American women.
Plantation life.
Princesses.
Slaves.
Women plantation owners.
Women slaves.
African Americans--Florida.
Slaves--Biography.--United States
Negers.
Slavernij.
Plantages.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Fort George Island (Fla.)--Biography.
Senegal--Biography.
Florida--Fort George Island.
Senegal.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.
Biographies (form)
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: E444.K56 / S33 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 975.9/12