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Image of a full-length portrait of Amanda America Dickson. She wears a dark, fitted top with a high collar and a full skirt.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.
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