Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Fleszar, Mark J. Author's Email Address markfleszar@aol.com URN etd-11182008-132256 Title The Atlantic Mind: Zephaniah Kingsley, Slavery, and the Politics of Race in the Atlantic World Degree Master of Arts Department History Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. H. Robert Baker Committee Co-Chair Dr. Jared Poley Committee Co-Chair Keywords
- Enlightenment
- Atlantic world
- Caribbean
- Haiti
- East Florida
- Slavery
- Race
- Protean
- Identity
- Colonization
Date of Defense 2008-11-14 Availability unrestricted Abstract Enlightenment philosophers had long feared the effects of crisscrossing boundaries, both real and imagined. Such fears were based on what they considered a brutal ocean space frequented by protean shape-shifters with a dogma of ruthless exploitation and profit. This intellectual study outlines the formation and fragmentation of a fluctuating worldview as experienced through the circum-Atlantic life and travels of merchant, slaveowner, and slave trader Zephaniah Kingsley during the Era of Revolution. It argues that the process began from experiencing the costs of loyalty to the idea of the British Crown and was tempered by the pervasiveness of violence, mobility, anxiety, and adaptation found in the booming Atlantic markets of the Caribbean during the Haitian Revolution. Tracing Kingsley’s manipulations of identity and race through his peripatetic journey serves to go beyond the infinite masks of his self-invention and exposes the deeply imbedded transatlantic dimensions of power.Files
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