Kingsley Plantation Ethnohistorical Study

This ethno historical study expands the scope of knowledge about the lifeways and socio-cultural patterns of persons primarily of African descent associated with the Kingsley Plantation. The study is enriched by oral history and interview testimony provided by Zephaniah, Kingsley’s African, European, and Latino descendant family members and descendants of enslaved and free persons of color who worked at the Kingsley Plantation site. Emphasis is placed on analysis of the Kingsley community’s transition through time, from the antebellum period to the present- with a focus on the period immediately before Civil War and through the early 20th century.