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Amanda America Dickson (November 20, 1849 – June 11, 1893) was an African-American socialite in Georgia who became known as one of the wealthiest African-American women of the 19th century after inheriting a large estate from her white planter father.
- David Dickson (father), Julia Frances Lewis Dickson (mother)
- November 20, 1849, Hancock County, Georgia, US
22 de nov. de 2015 · Public domain image, Courtesy Georgia Historical Society. Heiress and socialite Amanda America Dickson Toomer was, in her time, the wealthiest African American woman in Georgia, and one of the wealthiest women in the United States. Born November 20, 1849, on the Dickson Plantation, near Sparta, Georgia (Hancock County), Amanda ...
10 de mar. de 2003 · Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America. She was born on November 20 or 21, 1849, on the Hancock County plantation of her father, the famous white agricultural reformer, David Dickson (1809-85).
On his death he scandalized Hancock county society by bequeathing the vast bulk of his estate (a share with a value estimated at more than $300,000) to his only child, Amanda America Dickson (1849–1893). Her mother, a slave belonging to his mother, had been raped at age 12 or 13 by David Dickson.
Amanda America Dickson. (1849—1893) Quick Reference. (b. 21 November 1849; d. 11 July 1893), slave-aristocrat. Amanda America Dickson was born on the plantation of her father, the white agricultural reformer David Dickson of Hancock County, Georgia. ... From: Dickson, Amanda America (Eubanks Toomer) in Black Women in America »
Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America when the Georgia Supreme Court upheld her claim to her father's contested will. Dickson inherited his estate in Hancock County upon his death in 1885. Courtesy of Georgia Historical Society.
Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege is the life story of an elite woman of color who lived within the social and...
