{"product_id":"zephaniah-kingsley-jr-and-the-atlantic-world-slave-trader-plantation-owner-emancipator","title":"Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator","description":"Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction\nFlorida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award\n\nFlorida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award\n\nA biography of a controversial patriarch of a mixed-race family\n\n\nA controversial figure for his views on manumission and his unorthodox marital arrangements, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (1765-1843) is mostly known today for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society, that advocated just and humane treatment of enslaved persons, liberal emancipation policies, and granting rights to free persons of color. Paradoxically, his fortune came from the purchase, sale, and labor of enslaved Africans.\n\nIn this penetrating biography, Daniel Schafer vividly chronicles Kingsley’s evolving thoughts on race and slavery, exploring his business practices and his private life. Kingsley fathered children by several enslaved women, then freed and lived with them in a unique mixed-race family. One of the women—the only one he acknowledged as his \"wife\" though they were never formally married—was Anta Madgigine Ndiaye (Anna Kingsley), a member of the Senegalese royal family, who was captured in a slave raid and purchased by Kingsley in Havana, Cuba.\n\nA ship captain, Caribbean merchant, and Atlantic slave trader during the perilous years of international warfare following the French Revolution, Kingsley sought protection under neutral flags, changing allegiance from Britain to the United States, Denmark, and Spain. Later, when the American acquisition of Florida brought rigid race and slavery policies that endangered the freedom of Kingsley’s mixed-race family, he responded by moving his \"wives\" and children to a vast agricultural settlement in Haiti that he established for free persons of color.\n\nKingsley’s assertion that color should not be a \"badge of degradation\" made him unusual in the early Republic. His unique life is revealed in this fascinating reminder of the deep connections between Europe, the Caribbean, and the young United States.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0813044626\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0813044626.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Schafer, Daniel L.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41657666699322,"sku":"DBV.0813044626.VG","price":12.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0813044626-0.jpg?v=1789614597","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/zephaniah-kingsley-jr-and-the-atlantic-world-slave-trader-plantation-owner-emancipator","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}