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A Slaveholder but by no means a Racist,
By Manuel A. Lebron (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley (Florida History and Culture) (Hardcover)
"Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley" successfully portrays the ideas my 4-times-great-grandfather shared about the relationship between race and the institution of slavery. The editors' comments go straight to the point of it all: that the idea of slavery must not be based on race, or for that matter, racism. Kingsley himself was an enigma, a contradiction. Few white men held a stronger appreciation for the Negro race, as his writings and personal life indicate. It seems that towards the end of his life (as shown by his establishment of a colony of most of his freed slaves and his family in the northern part of the island of Hispaniola, specifically what is today the Dominican Republic) he embraced the abolitionist cause. The settlement he founded, a tiny model of Liberia in the Caribbean, is now the bustling tourist town of Cabarete. I earnestly recommend anybody interested in understanding and interpreting the sad story of slavery -specifically how it relates to anti-African racism- to read this book, and to pay extra careful attention to the original footnotes written by my ancestor- perhaps then some light might be shed on this chapter of the ongoing American saga: race relations.
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Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley (Florida History and Culture) by Z. Kingsley (Hardcover - January 1, 2000)
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