| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner. By Daniel L. Schafer. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xiv, 177 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-8130-2616-4.)

Daniel L. Schafer has written an absorbing account of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, an African woman who was enslaved, forcibly transported to Florida, held in bondage, freed, and married to her white master; she bore several of his children and then rose to prominence as a slaveholder. Without Schafer's extensive research and skillful use of the documentation and family history, Anna Kingsley would have doubtless been lost in the long shadows cast by time. Instead, Schafer's account, his exploration of the many anomalies of her identities and experiences, is an interesting biography; at the same time, it is a valuable account that brings a wider understanding to the lives of enslaved and free women in the nineteenth-century South.

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