Kingsley Plantation

Kingsley Plantation (HMQT9)

Location: Jacksonville, FL 32226 Duval County
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Country: United States of America
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N 30° 26.344', W 81° 26.245'

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Plantation Era Florida

The plantation era was a time in our history of opportunity, political contradictions and great cruelty.

For planters, like Zephaniah Kingsley, it was a time for amassing land and wealth. For enslaved Africans who produced the wealth it was a time of dehumanizing and brutal life, but also extraordinary strength, perseverance and faith. All played a significant role in what happened here during that time in our history.

"It will be allowed by everyone, that agriculture is the great foundation of the wealth and prosperity of our Southern States. ...we are therefore to look for labour to that intrinsically valuable caste of People called Negro Slaves whose productive labour and cheerful obedience has in all cases been measured by the justice & good treatment of their master who is well remunerated for this kindness by rearing up a permanent & profitable Estate."
Zephaniah Kingsley, 1826

"The memory of slavery gives voice to the men and women who experienced slavery directly and tells two great stories. If slavery was violence and imposition - if it was death - slavery was also life. ...slaves did not surrender to the imposition, physical and psychological. They refused to be dehumanized by dehumanizing treatment. On the narrowest of grounds and in the most difficult of circumstances they created and sustained life in the form of families, churches, and associations of all kinds."
Ira Berlin, 2001

Details

HM Number	HMQT9
Tags	Black History, Agriculture, Settlements and Settlers
Placed By	National Park Service
Marker Condition	No reports yet
Date Added	Thursday, October 16th, 2014 at 6:47am PDT -07:00

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UTM (WGS84 Datum)	17R E 457998 N 3367520
Decimal Degrees	30.43906667, -81.43741667
Degrees and Decimal Minutes	N 30° 26.344', W 81° 26.245'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds	30° 26' 20.64" N, 81° 26' 14.70" W
Driving Directions	Google Maps
Area Code(s)	904
Closest Postal Address	At or near 11677-11699 Palmetto Ave, Jacksonville FL 32226, US
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