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Episodes tagged "Zephaniah Kingsley": 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Patriarchal Slave System: How it worked
    date 1829map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Zephaniah Kingsley, Slavery, Patriarchy

    ”Patriarchy is a system where males are the head of the family and have all the rights of decision-making,”a system that has persisted for many years in American History. Patriarchy was not only used in government bodies, but it was also used in determining a slave child’s fate. In A Treatise on the Patriarchal or Co-Operative System of Society a humble servant by the name of Z. Kingsley allows...

  2. The Kingsley Plantation
    date March 7, 1814 to March 5, 1815map Florida, Floridatags plantation, Zephaniah Kingsley

    In the early years of the nineteenth century many people came to Spanish Florida. Some were forced to come to Florida to work on plantations and others like Zephaniah Kingsley sought to make their own fortunes by obtaining land and establishing those plantations. During this time alliances and politics were shifting and though some of the enslaved would later become free landowners, they had to watch...

  3. Zephaniah Kingsley and His Treatise on a Patriarchal Society
    date 1829map Florida, Floridatags Zephaniah Kingsley, Argument for Slavery in Florida

    Zephaniah Kingsley was a plantation owner on Fort George Island, now Jacksonville, FL. In his "Treatise of Patriarchal, or Co-operative System of Society", Kingsley spoke of the use of slaves in southern states as the only answer to agricultural production because the white people of the region were not created to work within the area. He used the argument of many slave holders of the time; that whites...