Woman of Color Daughter of Privilege Author:Kent Anderson Leslie Daughter of a white planter and unconsenting black slave in antibellum Georgia, Amanda America Dickson confounded and ultimately triumphed over the racial strictures of her time. Upon her father's death, she inherited her father's half million dollar estate in 1885 and became the largest landowner in her county and wealthiest black woman in pos... more »t-Civil War South.« less