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Friday, October 18, 2013
"Anna Madgignine Jai Kingsley"(1793-April or May 1870)
Was a West African Slave turned slaveholder and plantation owner in early 19 century Florida,At 13 she was captured and sent to Cuba where she purchased by and married Zephaniah Kingsley,a slave trader and plantation owner.They had four children together.He freed Anna in 1811 and gave her responsibilities for his plantations in East Florida.For 25 years Zephaniah unusual family lived on Fort George Island in modern-day Jacksonville,where Anna managed a large and successful operation.After gaining freedom,Anna was given a Spanish land grant for 5 acres and held 12 slaves.She later was awarded a land grant of 350 acres by the Spanish government.After the U.S. took control of Florida and America discriminatory laws threatened the multi-racial Kingsley family,most of them moved to Haiti.Zephaniah died soon after,and Anna returned to Florida to dispute her husband's realtives' contesting his will;they sought to exclude Anna and her children from their inheritance.The court honored a treaty between the U.S. and Spain,and Anna was successful in the court case,despite a political climate hostile toward African Americans.She settled in the Arlington neighborhood of Jacksonville,where she died in 1870.The National Park Service protects Kingsley Plantation,where Anna Zephaniah lived on Fort Georgia Island,as part of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve.
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