Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world : slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator /
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.
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| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2013
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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.
