{"id":37723,"date":"2014-10-15T01:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T01:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37723"},"modified":"2014-10-15T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:07:41","slug":"sands-of-time-american-beach-nears-80-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37723","title":{"rendered":"SANDS OF TIME: American Beach nears 80-year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANDS OF TIME: American Beach nears 80-year anniversary<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Florida Times-Union<\/a>
\nJacksonville, Florida
\n2014-10-13<\/p>\n

Alec Newell<\/strong><\/p>\n

The extended family of Zephaniah Kingsley<\/a>, Anna Jai<\/a>, and their descendants have been major players in shaping the history of Northeast Florida<\/a> during three colonial periods, American territorial times, Florida<\/a> statehood and on into the 20th century.<\/em><\/p>\n

Between Lake George<\/a> and the St. Marys River<\/a>, the fingerprints they left seem to be everywhere.<\/p>\n

Most of us are familiar with the story of how slave trader Zepheniah Kingsley bought a 13-year-old \u201cAfrican princess\u201d \u2014 Anna Madgigine Jai \u2014 in Cuba<\/a> and brought her back to his Laurel Grove Plantation in what is now Orange Park<\/a>. The couple produced four children, and Zephaniah never wavered in his acknowledgement of Anna as his wife.<\/p>\n

Anna, later as a freed woman of color, would own her own slaves, plantation property, and live at various other family residences along the lower St. Johns River<\/a>. These properties included Mandarin<\/a> (later owned by Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/a>), Kingsley Plantation<\/a> (Ft. George Island<\/a>), Chesterfield (part of the Jacksonville University Campus), Floral Bluff (Arlington<\/a>), and Strawberry Plantation (Arlington Bluff), where she was buried. Probably less well-known is the Kingsley connection to the Afro-American Life Insurance Company<\/a> and American Beach<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SANDS OF TIME: American Beach nears 80-year anniversary The Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, Florida 2014-10-13 Alec Newell The extended family of Zephaniah Kingsley, Anna Jai, and their descendants have been major players in shaping the history of Northeast Florida during three colonial periods, American territorial times, Florida statehood and on into the 20th century. Between Lake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6940,20],"tags":[18145,18144,18140,18141,18146,18147,3707,18143,18142,7073],"class_list":["post-37723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-alec-newell","tag-american-beach","tag-anna-jai","tag-anna-madgigine-jai","tag-anna-madgigine-jai-kingsley","tag-anta-madjiguene-ndiaye","tag-florida","tag-florida-times-union","tag-the-florida-times-union","tag-zephaniah-kingsley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}