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Metadata
Catalog Number |
B2016.03.07 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Title |
Kingsley Plantation Cabin #2 |
Museum |
Alexandria Black History Museum |
Description |
Sanabria depicts an interior view of a reconstructed slave driver's cabin at Kingsley Plantation on Fort George Island, Florida. Zephaniah Kingsley, the plantation owner from 1814-1837, was a central figure in the slave trade. He ran a profitable slave smuggling and trading operation. Kingsley's enslaved workers built thirty-two cabins in the 1820s. Made of tabby, an ancient building material that the Spanish introduced to the New World, these structures housed between sixty and eighty enslaved families. One of Kingsley's common-law wives was an enslaved Senegalese woman, Anna Madgigine Jai, whom he later freed. When the United States gained control of Florida, Kingsley feared for Anna and her children's rights and relocated them to Haiti. This painting is part of Sherry Z. Sanabria's "Sites of Conscience" series. |
Material |
Arches Paper |
Artist or Maker |
Sherry Z. Sanabria |
Date |
2005 |
Dimensions |
H-40 W-60 inches |
Search Terms |
Plantations Slave quarters Slavery |
Subjects |
Plantations Slave quarters Slavery |
Related People |
Sanabria, Sherry Z. |