Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world
Subtitle: slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator
By: Daniel L. Schafer
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780813044620
Subjects: Slave trade; Slavery; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Kingsley Family, Charleston, and the American Revolution; title: New Brunswick years: becoming an Atlantic trader; title: "My saddle bags loaded with specie": Caribbean commerce in the age of revolution; title: Shifting loyalties: St. Thomas and the transit trade in African slaves; title: "Fortune is neither to be won by prudence nor industry": a slaving voyage to East Africa; title: Family ties: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley; title: Laurel Grove Plantation, slavery, and East Florida's booming economy; title: "Left by the patriots a perfect desert": the Patriot War in East Florida; title: "Like a turtle without a shell": Spain's final years in East Florida; title: "Discreetly restrained under the patriarchal system": life and labor at Kingsley's plantations; title: "The door of liberty is open to every slave who can find the means of purchasing himself": from Spanish to American race relations; title: "In trust for Flora Hanahan Kingsley and her son Charles": Kingsley as Patriarch; title: The "Island of Liberty" and Kingsley's final journeys; title: "To do good in this world we must have money": the Kingsley legacy.