Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world

slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator

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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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English
Pages
336

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Cover of: Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
2024, University Press of Florida
in English
Cover of: Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world: slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator
2013, University Press of Florida
in English

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-324) and index.

Published in
Gainesville

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
975.9/04092, B
Library of Congress
E445.F6 S33 2013, E445.F6S33 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 336 p.
Number of pages
336

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26921802M
ISBN 10
0813044626
ISBN 13
9780813044620
LCCN
2013020093
OCLC/WorldCat
827841512

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