{"product_id":"zephaniah-kingsley-jr-and-the-atlantic-world-slave-trader-plantation-owner-emancipator-9780813080789","title":"Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator","description":"\u003cb\u003eFlorida\u003cbr\u003eBook Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlorida\u003cbr\u003eHistorical Society Charlton Tebeau Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlorida\u003cbr\u003eHistorical Society Stetson Kennedy Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA biography of a controversial patriarch of a mixed-race family \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA\u003cbr\u003e controversial figure for his views on manumission and his unorthodox \u003cbr\u003emarital arrangements, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (1765-1843) is mostly known\u003cbr\u003e today for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, \u003cbr\u003enow a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, \u003cem\u003eA Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e that advocated just and humane treatment of enslaved persons, liberal \u003cbr\u003eemancipation policies, and granting rights to free persons of color. \u003cbr\u003eParadoxically, his fortune came from the purchase, sale, and labor of \u003cbr\u003eenslaved Africans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this penetrating biography, \u003cbr\u003eDaniel Schafer vividly chronicles Kingsley's evolving thoughts on race \u003cbr\u003eand slavery, exploring his business practices and his private life. \u003cbr\u003eKingsley fathered children by several enslaved women, then freed and \u003cbr\u003elived with them in a unique mixed-race family. One of the women--the only\u003cbr\u003e one he acknowledged as his \"wife\" though they were never formally \u003cbr\u003emarried--was Anta Madgigine Ndiaye (Anna Kingsley), a member of the \u003cbr\u003eSenegalese royal family, who was captured in a slave raid and purchased \u003cbr\u003eby Kingsley in Havana, Cuba.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA ship captain, Caribbean \u003cbr\u003emerchant, and Atlantic slave trader during the perilous years of \u003cbr\u003einternational warfare following the French Revolution, Kingsley sought \u003cbr\u003eprotection under neutral flags, changing allegiance from Britain to the \u003cbr\u003eUnited States, Denmark, and Spain. Later, when the American acquisition \u003cbr\u003eof Florida brought rigid race and slavery policies that endangered the \u003cbr\u003efreedom of Kingsley's mixed-race family, he responded by moving his \u003cbr\u003e\"wives\" and children to a vast agricultural settlement in Haiti that he \u003cbr\u003eestablished for free persons of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKingsley's \u003cbr\u003eassertion that color should not be a \"badge of degradation\" made him \u003cbr\u003eunusual in the early Republic. His unique life is revealed in this \u003cbr\u003efascinating reminder of the deep connections between Europe, the \u003cbr\u003eCaribbean, and the young United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchafer, Daniel L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Daniel L. Schafer, Professor of History Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor at the University of North Florida, is the author of several books, including Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida and Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida.","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51319379394834,"sku":"9780813080789","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c361ba5c-5141-41c6-8d4e-debdc37d7444.jpg?v=1748531966","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zephaniah-kingsley-jr-and-the-atlantic-world-slave-trader-plantation-owner-emancipator-9780813080789","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}