| Florida Memory Project Home Browse and of Florida Explore educational resources See rare documents from Florida's past Veteran's records, land grants, and more Take an interactive tour of Florida's history The Florida Memory Project presents a selection of historical records that illustrate significant moments in Florida history, educational resources for students of all ages and archival collections for historical research. The Project utilizes selected original records, photographs and other materials from the collections of the State Library and Archives of Florida. FEATURED PHOTO EXHIBIT In recognition of the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, the State Archives of Florida is proud to present this re-creation of a 1939 photo exhibit by the Florida Art Project of the WPA on the Conchs (Bahamian immigrants) of Riviera Beach, Florida. This collection contains two documents concerning the contesting of Zephaniah Kingsley's will. Kingsley was a wealthy planter and slave owner in Northeast Florida. His heirs were his wife, an African American named Anna M.J. Kingsley, and their children. One document is the petition to the will made by Kingsleys sister Martha McNeill while the other document is the executors' response (Benjamin A. Putnam and Kingsley B. Gibbs) to the petition of Anna M. J. Kingsley, widow of Zephaniah Kingsley. While incomplete and inconclusive, these documents reveal the precarious and dynamic status of free blacks in antebel...
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