List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Kingsley Family, Charleston, and the American Revolution
Chapter 2. New Brunswick Years: Becoming an Atlantic Trader
Chapter 3. “My Saddle Bags Loaded with Specie”: Caribbean Commerce in the Age of Revolution
Chapter 4. Shifting Loyalties: St. Thomas and the Transit Trade in African Slaves
Chapter 5. “Fortune Is Neither to Be Won by Prudence nor Industry”: A Slaving Voyage to East Africa
Chapter 6. Family Ties: Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley
Chapter 7. Laurel Grove Plantation, Slavery, and East Florida’s Booming Economy
Chapter 8. “Left by the Patriots a Perfect Desert”: The Patriot War in East Florida
Chapter 9. “Like a Turtle without a Shell”: Spain’s Final Years in East Florida
Chapter 10. “Discreetly Restrained under the Patriarchal System”: Life and Labor at Kingsley’s Plantations
Chapter 11. “The Door of Liberty Is Open to Every Slave Who Can Find the Means of Purchasing Himself”: From Spanish to American Race Relations
Chapter 12. “In Trust for Flora Hanahan Kingsley and Her Son Charles”: Kingsley as Patriarch
Chapter 13. The “Island of Liberty” and Kingsley’s Final Journeys
Chapter 14. “To Do Good in This World We Must Have Money”: The Kingsley Legacy
Appendix A: Forty-five Slaves Lost, July 1812, at Laurel Grove and Drayton Island
Appendix B: Inventory of Zephaniah Kingsley’s Estate at San Jose Plantation, March 13, 1844
Appendix C: Slaves Claimed by George Kingsley from the Estate of Zephaniah Kingsley Jr.
Appendix D: Slaves Recovered by Anna Kingsley from the Estate of Zephaniah Kingsley Jr.
Appendix E: Account of Sales of Property, Sold at Auction, January 1, 1847
Appendix F: Inventory of the Real and Personal Estate of George Kingsley
Appendix G: Account of the Sale of the Personal Estate of George Kingsley, February 1, 1848
Notes
Bibliography
Index
