Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, Revised and Expanded Edition: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner

Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award

In this revised and expanded edition of Anna Kingsley’s remarkable life story, Daniel Schafer draws on new discoveries to prove true the longstanding rumors that Anna Madgigine Jai was originally a princess from the royal family of Jolof in Senegal. Captured from her homeland in 1806, she became first an American slave, later a slaveowner, and eventually a central figure in a free black community. Anna Kingsley’s story adds a dramatic chapter to the history of the South, the state of Florida, and the African diaspora.

© 2018 University Press of Florida (E-bog): 9780813063539

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E-bog: 1. marts 2018