Amanda America Dickson 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 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. New Georgia Encyclopedia Georgia Historical Society Black-and-white photographs http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-1702 http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-821 Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia Augusta (Ga.) Richmond County (Ga.) Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society