A biography of a controversial patriarch of a mixed-race family A
controversial figure for his views on manumission and his unorthodox
marital arrangements, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (1765-1843) is mostly known
today for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida,
now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society,
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