Product Description: “An original and important contribution to the scholarship of Florida, the British Empire, the Caribbean, Africa, slavery and emancipation, the colonial United States, and the Atlantic world. Kingsley was a figure who moved through many worlds, and this meticulously researched work follows his many trails...read more

A professor of history retells the amazing story of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, an African-born woman who married her owner and later gained control of his East Florida plantation. (Biography)