Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley Was Said To Have Been An African Princess That Owned Slaves!

This is a remarkable book that tells the story of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley. It's not a widely known piece of black history so I'd thought I'd post about it. She was said to have been an African princess who got abducted & sold into slavery.She ended up marrying her owner & becoming a plantation owner. She was one of the most revered women in Florida's black community. Here's the book's sypnopsis from Waterstones.com:

"Anna Kingsley's life story adds a dramatic chapter to histories of the South, the state of Florida, and the African diaspora. Working from surprisingly extensive records, including information and photographs from extended-family members and descendants, Daniel Shafer reconstructs and documents one slave's remarkable story. Both an American slave and a slaveowner - and possibly an African princess - Anna was a teenager when she was captured in her homeland of Senegal in 1806 and sold into slavery. Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr., a planter and slave trader from Spanish East Florida, bought her in Havana, Cuba, and took her to his St. Johns River plantation in northeast Florida, where she soon became his household manager, his wife, and eventually the mother of four of his children. Her husband formally emancipated her in 1811, and she became the owner of her own farm and twelve slaves the following year. For 25 years, life on her farm and at the Kingsley plantation on Fort George Island was relatively tranquil. But when Florida passed from Spanish to American control, and racism and discrimination increased in the American territories, Anna Kingsley and her children migrated to a colony in Haiti established by her husband as a refuge for free blacks. Amid the spiraling racial tensions of the antebellum period, Anna returned to north Florida, where she bought and sold land, sued white people in the courts, and became a central figure in a free black community. Such remarkable accomplishments by a woman in a patriarchal society are fascinating in themselves. To have achieved them as a woman of color is remarkable." Here's the link to their website:
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=5105549

The White Witch Of Rose Hall Is A Jamaican Supernatural Legend!

I've been to the Rose Hall plantation & I bought a little voodoo doll as a souvenir. Let me tell you that I felt nothing supernatural. It could be that I'm just not receptive to these sorts of things. But, I did go on the tour in the daytime. Maybe the ghost of Annie Palmer only comes out at night. It wasn't even spooky. I did feel sad because this woman had murdered so many slaves on that plantation. That was the scary part. Here's an excerpt from an article about the "haunted" plantation:

"Rose Hall is one of the finest examples of colonial great houses on the island of Jamaica, but what truly makes it legendary is the fact that locals believe the house has been haunted for decades by the ghost of Annie Palmer, better known as the White Witch.

Since her death in the early 1830s, the spellbinding legends surrounding Rose Hall have been woven into Caribbean folklore and have been immortalized in at least a dozen Gothic novels including the H. G. De Lisser novel, The White Witch of Rose Hall, published in 1928." (END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here:
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/travel/story.html?id=6f086a36-dcc5-4ac7-9f9d-c3305f7fa798
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Oprah Warns Voters To Double Check Their Electronic Vote!

If you have to use a electronic voting machine, you should double check your ballot. Oprah Winfrey said she made a mistake & the machine did not register her vote. She said,"It didn't record my presidential vote." You don't want that to happen to you when you vote. By the way, make sure that you do vote. Every last one counts.