Woman of Color Daughter of Privilege Author:Kent Anderson Leslie The daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antibellum Georgia, Amanda America Dickson confounded and ultimately triumphed over the harsh racial strictures that ordered her world. Legally a slave well into her adolescence, Dickson inherited most of her father's half-million-dollar estate after his death in 1885, making her the ... more »largest landowner in her county and wealthiest black woman in the post-Civil War South. Kent Anderson Leslie uses Dickson's life to show how family ties could break down the color barrier and how transgressions of eleborate racial codes were sometimes ignored, tolerated, or even accepted.« less