BLACK HISTORY MONTH: The Kingsley Heritage Celebration started 25 years ago as a family reunion for the Kingsley family and other descendants of slaves who once lived on the plantation.
The Kingsley Heritage Celebration started 25 years ago as a family reunion for the Kingsley family and other descendants of slaves who once lived on the plantation.– Over the last two weekends, a special celebration honored the significance of the Kingsley Plantation’s Black history.
“She was purchased by Zephaniah [Kingsley] in Havana at the age of 13, brought to Spanish Florida to St. Augustine,” explained Timucuan Preserve park ranger Emily Palmer. Anna Kingsley, who was a princess in Africa, was captured and sold into slavery in Cuba in the early 1800s. But the event has since evolved into a community event that’s in person again this year for the first time since 2020.
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