| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Daniel L. Schafer. Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2003. Pp. xiv, 177. $24.95.
Generally speaking and until recently, historians have thought little of or studied slavery much beyond the greater Chesapeake region. Jane L. Landers, Canter Brown, Jr., and Randolph B. Campbell, to name a few of the exceptions, have begun to broaden significantly our understanding of the peculiar institution beyond Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. With a work product that stretches back to the 1980s, Daniel L. Schafer clearly deserves a place among that pioneering company.	1
Schafer's latest contribution focuses on the life and times of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley who, as the book's title suggests, apparently combined the roles of African princess, Florida slave, and wealthy plantation owner. Schafer has produced a remarkable study that should be read by scholars and general readers alike. While the work does not purport to be exhaustive, it does give a fascinating and thorough overview of the trials and tribulations faced by one exceptional black Floridian during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In so doing, the author explores Kingsley's origins from her youth and capture in Senegal, Africa, to her awful "Middle Passage" journey to Havana and subsequent sale to East Florida slave trader and planter Zephaniah Kingsley. Her later years in Florida and Haiti likewise command attention.	. . .

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