Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world
Schafer, Daniel L.
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator / [electronic resource] : Daniel L. Schafer. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013. - 1 online resource (384 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780813048529 0813048524
Kingsley family.
Kingsley, Z. 1765-1843.
Slave trade--History.--United States
Slavery--Florida.
Electronic books.
E445.F6 / S33 2013
975.9/04092 B
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic world slave trader, plantation owner, emancipator / [electronic resource] : Daniel L. Schafer. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013. - 1 online resource (384 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780813048529 0813048524
Kingsley family.
Kingsley, Z. 1765-1843.
Slave trade--History.--United States
Slavery--Florida.
Electronic books.
E445.F6 / S33 2013
975.9/04092 B