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Posted 8/23/2022
Siren Protectors of the Rainforest presents “Anna is Anta - La Reina Remains the Queen”, a true story of a Jolof princess sold from the spoils of war who marries the man that buys her and leaves a legacy that defied all odds of an African woman in 1800 Atlantic American life. “Anna is Anta - La Reina Remains the Queen '' is a dance drama that explores the remarkable history of Anna Kingsley born in 1793 as Anta Madjiguène Ndiaye in what is present day Senegal. Captured at 13 and sent to Cuba to be sold into slavery.
Anta was purchased by Zephaniah Kingsley, who married her in an African ceremony in Cuba and bore children with her. Different from the lives of most people in similar conditions in that era, Anna managed a highly profitable plantation for its time, maintained a quality of life at the plantation for Africans, Natives and Indentured Whites that surpassed all other plantations.
Anna evaded the racial laws of the United States by moving her family and 70 enslaved Africans to recently independent Hayti. When her husband died, she came back from Haiti and sued her white inlaws for her property and won. She lived the rest of her life in Florida helping the Union during the Civil War until her death.