About the Author

Daniel L. Schafer, professor of history at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, is the author of many articles and books, including St. Augustine's British Years, 1763-1768 and Jacksonville's Ordeal by Fire.

Reviews

"Undoubtedly the best documented record of a slave born in Africa, who married her owner in East Florida, operated a plantation after her husband's death, and ruled as matriarch over an extended family until the Civil War. Schafer has reconstructed Anna Magigine Jai Kingsley's story in a remarkable way." - Bruce L. Mouser, editor, A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the Sandown, 1793-1794