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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial Historic photograph of Kingsley Plantation slave quarters, courtesy of the Florida State Archives
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Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve & Fort Caroline National Memorial
People at Kingsley Plantation

Over the one hundred years of the plantation era on Fort George Island, hundreds of men, women, and children lived with the institution of slavery. A few were free and owned the majority of residents on the island - the enslaved workers.

At Kingsley Plantation, you can walk in the footsteps of those people, and learn their life stories. For more information on the people of Kingsley Plantation, choose:

Kingsley Family

Slave Community

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Historic drawing of a Timucua man with his hair in a top know

Did You Know?
Timucua warriors wore their hair in a top knot, which made them appear taller. Historic drawings of Timucua and French contact show the Timucua to be of greater stature than the French.
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