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Most of us have heard of Anna Kingsley through the Kingsley Plantation, south of Amelia Island on Fort George Island. But the life story of this amazing woman defies belief. She was born an African princess, was enslaved, emerged as free black woman and landowner, survived two wars, and won in the Florida judicial system as a woman of color in the 1840s.
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Slave quarters are arranged in a semicircle at Kingsley Plantation.
Susan Martin | Amelia Island Museum of History
Most of us have heard of Anna Kingsley through the Kingsley Plantation, south of Amelia Island on Fort George Island.
But the life story of this…