Overview
Location
Jacksonville, Duval Co., FL
Date Constructed/ Founded
1814
Associated Surnames
Gibbs, Hanahan, Kingsley
Historical notes
Zephaniah Kingsley moved to Fort George Island and founded the Kingsley Plantation in 1814. His wife, Anna Madgigine Jai (of Senegal, West Africa), was purchased by Kingsley as a slave. She actively participated in plantation management, acquiring her own land and slaves when freed by Kingsley in 1811. The ca. 60 slaves on the plantation harvested Sea Island cotton, citrus, sugar cane and corn. Kingsley continued to acquire property in north Florida and eventually possessed more than 32,000 acres, including four major plantation complexes and more than 200 slaves. Anna Jai and their sons moved to Haiti (1837) where Kingsley established a colony for his family and some of his former slaves. In 1839, Fort George Island was sold to his nephew Kingsley Beatty Gibbs. Zephaniah Kingsley died in New York City in 1843.
Associated Slave Workplaces
none
Associated Free Persons
- Zephaniah Kingsley (?-d.1837) - plantation owner
- Kingsley Beatty Gibbs - nephew of Zephaniah Kingsley; second owner of Kingsley Plantation
Associated Enslaved Persons
- Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley - wife of Zephaniah Kingsley; born in Senegal, West Africa; owned and later freed (1811) by Zephaniah Kingsley
- Gullah Jack - "stolen" from Kingsley by Seminole Indians; later, he reappeared in Charleston as an important lieutenant of the Denmark Vesey slave uprising; sentenced to death
- Abraham Hanahan - plantation manager; manumitted by Zephaniah Kingsley; became a river pilot, trader, and farmer, who went by the name "Free Abraham Hanahan"; eventually migrated to Haiti
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