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Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege - Amanda America Dickson, 1849-93 (Paperback, New edition)
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Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege - Amanda America Dickson, 1849-93 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Brown Thrasher Books
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Discovery Miles 5 240
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This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the
privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in
antebellum Georgia, shows how strong-willed individuals defied
racial strictures for the sake of family. Kent Anderson Leslie uses
the events of Dickson's life to explore the forces driving southern
race and gender relations from the days of King Cotton through the
Civil War, Reconstruction, and New South eras. Although legally a
slave herself well into her adolescence, Dickson was much favored
by her father and lived comfortably in his house, receiving a
genteel upbringing and education. After her father died in 1885
Dickson inherited most of his half-million dollar estate, sparking
off two years of legal battles with white relatives. When the
Georgia Supreme Court upheld the will, Dickson became the largest
landowner in Hancock County, Georgia, and the wealthiest black
woman in the post-Civil War South. Kent Anderson Leslie's portrayal
of Dickson is enhanced by a wealth of details about plantation
life; the elaborate codes of behavior for men and women, blacks and
whites in the South; and the equally complicated circumstances
under which racial transgressions were sometimes ignored,
tolerated, or even accepted.
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