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Daniel L. Shafer, author of Anna Madgigine Jia Kingsley, African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner, traveled to Europe, the Caribbean, and West Africa to research. Shafer gave an account of Anna Kingsley’s life, who he explains to be and African “princess”. He shares the struggles that she endured once being an enslaved African American to becoming a free woman and plantation owner. The book was very interesting but I felt lacked first hand evidence of Anna Kingsleys life. Anta Majigeen Ndiaye (Anna Kingsley) was taken from her home in Senegal. Only being thirteen years old in 1806 she was sold into slavery. She was bought by Zephaniah Kingsley and brought back to his 3000-acre plantation near the St. johns river. Not long after,
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