Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813021170
• ISBN13: 9780813021171
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"