Zephaniah Kingsley

    My name is Zephaniah Kingsley Jr.,
I am a Quaker. Born in Bristol, England on December 4th 1765. I was the son of a British Loyalist, Zephaniah Kingsley Sr., who was also a Quaker from London. My father moved my family to the colony of South Carolina in 1770 when I was just 5 years old. I grew up in Charleston with my father being a successful merchant. Then the revolutionary war happened and, my father, being the loyalist he was, was forced to move our family to New Brunswick, Canada. When I was 28 years old in 1793, I moved back to Charleston where I pledged my allegiance to the United States. I moved to the southern Spanish colonies, which is now Jacksonville, Florida. I built several plantations here. I am a firm believer of polygamy and I owned around 200 slaves at once. Four of these slaves were my wives, but the only one I ever told anyone about was my wife Anna Jai. I emancipated her when she was 18 and had 4 children with her. In the Spanish Colony of Florida there was a law that allowed freed people of color to maintain certain rights under the law, but the colony was acquired by the US and the laws were changed so I tried very hard to keep my families rights as freed colored people, but I was unsuccessful. My story is tricky because I wanted colored people who were freed to have rights under the law, but I was very against freeing the slaves because I heavily profited off of slavery. So I'm pro-slavery, but I wanted colored people who were freed to maintain their rights, but it is hard to tell whether it is because I believe in the thought of it or because of the selfish reason that my wife was a black woman with 4 mixed race children.

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