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Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege - Amanda America Dickson, 1849-93 (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R524
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Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege - Amanda America Dickson, 1849-93 (Paperback, New edition): Kent Anderson Leslie

Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege - Amanda America Dickson, 1849-93 (Paperback, New edition)

Kent Anderson Leslie

Series: Brown Thrasher Books

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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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Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Brown Thrasher Books
Release date: October 1996
First published: October 1996
Authors: Kent Anderson Leslie
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 247
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1871-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
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LSN: 0-8203-1871-X
Barcode: 9780820318714

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