Balancing Evils Judiciously : The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley

by Stowell, Daniel W.

• ISBN13: 9780813021171
• ISBN10: 0813021170
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

For the first time, all the proslavery -- but also pro-black -- writings of Zephaniah Kingsley (1765-1843) appear together in one volume. Kingsley was a slave trader and the owner of a large plantation near Jacksonville in what was then Spanish East Florida. He married one of his slaves and had children with several others. Daniel Stowell carefully assembles all of Kingsley's writings on race and slavery to illuminate the evolution of his thought. The intriguing hybrid text of the four editions of the treatise clearly identifies both subtle and substantial differences among the editions. Other extensively annotated documents show how Kingsley's interracial family and his experiences in various slaveholding societies in the Caribbean and South America influenced his thinking on race, class, and slavery. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Series Editors' Foreword	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Editorial Method	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Manumission of Anna (1811)	p. 23
Address to the Legislative Council of Florida (c. 1826)	p. 26
Letter to the Editor of the East Florida Herald (1826)	p. 36
A Treatise on the Patriarchal, or Co-operative System of Society (1828-34)	p. 39
Circular in the Working Man's Advocate (New York, 1831)	p. 76
Memorial to Congress by Citizens of the Territory of Florida (1833)	p. 82
Letters On Haiti (1835, 1838)	p. 86
L. Maria Child, Letter from New York (1842)	p. 107
Last Will and Testament (1843)	p. 116
Index	p. 123
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