Taken from her homeland in Senegal and sold off into slavery at the age of thirteen, Anna Kingsley, originally known as Anta Majigeen Ndiaye, would never see her home again. Anna’s challenging life story became a significant part of slave trade history, and Daniel Schafer, author of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, goes into great detail about Anna’s journey from the moment she was stolen from her home until the moment of her death. Shafer mentions in the Preface of his book that he spent thirty years studying Anna Kingsley’s life. He argues that the history of Anna’s life needed to be deeply analyzed and separated from the myths that were falsely describing who Anna Kingsley really was. Shafer’s goal was to make an effort for historians and readers
