Amanda America Dickson
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| Type: | Black-and-white photographs |
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| Title: | Amanda America Dickson |
| Description: | Image of a full-length portrait of Amanda America Dickson. She wears a long dark dress with a corseted waist and a hat. She stands next to a short pillar. Dickson became one of the wealthiest black women in nineteenth-century America. She was born on November 20 or 21, 1849, on the Hancock County, Georgia plantation of her father, the famous white agricultural reformer, David Dickson (1809-85). Her birth was the result of the rape of her slave mother, Julia Frances Lewis Dickson, when Julia was twelve years old. |
| Subjects: | Women--Georgia--Augusta | African American women--Georgia--Augusta | Racially mixed women--Georgia--Augusta | Children of the rich--Georgia--Augusta | Hats--Georgia--Augusta | Women's hats--Georgia--Augusta | Dickson, Amanda America, 1849-1893 | Augusta (Ga.) | Richmond County (Ga.) |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia | Georgia Historical Society |
| Rights and Usage: | Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society |
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| Related Institutions: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) |
| Collection Information: | New Georgia Encyclopedia |