Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world : slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator
- Author/Creator:
- Schafer, Daniel L.
- Publication/Creation:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world : slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator / Daniel L. Schafer
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Kingsley, Z.(Zephaniah),1765-1843
Kingsley family
Slavery--Florida
Slave trade--United States--History
Description/Summary
- Table of 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.
- 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.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xiv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990033589460302486
- ISBN:
- 9780813044620 (alk. paper)
0813044626 (alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 827841512
- Barcode:
- 010002715350
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