Daniel L Schafer: 4 books
by Daniel L. Schafer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In his famous and influential book Travels, the naturalist William Bartram described the St. Johns riverfront in east Florida as an idyllic, untouched paradise. Bartram’s account was based on a journey he took down the river in 1774. Or was it?
Historians have relied upon the integrity of...
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World
Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Zephaniah Kingsley is best known for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society, that advocated just and human treatment of slaves, liberal emancipation policies, and granting...
Thunder on the River
The Civil War in Northeast Florida
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2010
When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city was taken four separate times by Federal forces but abandoned after each of the first three occupations. During the fourth occupation, it...
Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley
African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award
In this revised and expanded edition of Anna Kingsley’s remarkable life story, Daniel Schafer draws on new discoveries to prove true the longstanding rumors that Anna Madgigine Jai was originally a princess from the royal family of Jolof in...