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By the time she reached Northeast Florida, she was pregnant by the much-older Kingsley. She was 13. At 18, now known as Anna Madigine Jai Kingsley, she was emancipated and acknowledged as Kingsley ...

His wife, Anna Kingsley, had been his slave until he freed her in 1811. She helped manage the plantation as her husband’s northeast Florida empire grew to 32,000 acres and more than 200 slaves.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Kingsley Plantation is the oldest standing plantation in Florida. It’s where Anna Kingsley, an African woman who became a slave, went on to become a slave owner herself ...

FORT GEORGE ISLAND — In 1814, Zephaniah Kingsley brought his wife and three children to set up a Sea Island cotton plantation on this remote island near what is now Jacksonville.His wife, Anna ...