Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley
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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, born Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye, also known as Anna Kingsley, Anta Majigeen Njaay or Anna Madgigine Jai, was a West African woman from present-day Senegal, who was enslaved an
Front of the owner's house, at Kingsley Plantation
Maam Anna's apartments, now restored by the National Park Service, were above the kitchens. The main house is in the background.
Kingsley Plantation
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Kingsley Plantation is the site of a former estate on Fort George Island, in Duval County, Florida, that was named for its developer and most famous owner, Zephaniah Kingsley, who spent 25 years there
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley
…African descent. She settled in the Arlington neighborhood of Jacksonville, where she died in 1870 at 77 years old. The National Park Service protects Kingsley Plantation, where Anna and Kingsley lived on Fort George Island, as part of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Daniel L. Schafer, the biographer of…
Shell mound left by Timucua inhabitants of Fort George Island was used as building material at Kingsley Plantation
Etching of the owner's house on Fort George Island, showing one of the unique pavilions
Fort George Island, showing Kingsley's and Ma'am Anna Houses on shore, 1878. Note outline of house roof is different, as it includes rooms removed during restoration.