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Kent Anderson Leslie uses the events of Dickson's life to explore the forces driving southern race and gender relations from the days of King Cotton through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and New South eras. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.  US$12.87, US$26.12  US$19.30, US$26.67 In addition, in the county at large, there were twenty common schools. Nancy Watts owned 112 slaves in 1860, Mary Sasnett owned 76, and Mrs. W. E. Terrell owned 74. At the end of the antebellum period, based on income per capita, excluding slaves, Georgia was the richest state in the Union and Hancock County was one of its richest counties. Cotton was not available as a substitute because laborers could not separate cotton seeds from cotton fibers economically. Amanda America Dickson's birthplace, Hancock County, Georgia, is in the fertile so-called black belt of the state, 125 miles south and east of Atlanta, between the pre-Civil War capital of Milledgeville and the river-port city of Augusta (Map 1). The Book Depository Ltd.UK. By 1830 the county had established itself as a cotton-growing region. [Kent Anderson Leslie] -- Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege is the life story of an elite woman of color who lived within the social and economic systems of slavery and quasi-freedom in nineteenth-century Georgia. They remained the only white presence until 1732, when the British established the colony of Georgia.  US$28.00, US$27.06  US$31.95, US$22.78 By 1860 the leading fifty-six planter families, or 5 percent of the families in Hancock, owned more than half the land and 40 percent of the slaves. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 248. by Kent Anderson Leslie | Editorial Reviews. No railroad operated in the county at that time.  US$18.00, US$21.93 This slim volume is also eloquent testimony to a woman whose very identity and experiences called race-based slavery into question. After her father died in 1885 Dickson inherited most of his half-million dollar estate, sparking off two years of legal battles with white relatives. Additional Information. Yet it is much more than that. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege Book Description: This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, shows how strong-willed individuals defied racial strictures for the sake of family. Woman of color, daughter of privilege : Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893. . the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. This does not appear to have happened in Hancock County. And they could maintain their labor force at a subsistence level. In the middle group of agriculturalists, those worth between $1,001 and $9,999, slightly fewer than 8 percent owned real estate but no slaves.  US$22.99, US$34.26 Kent Anderson Leslie is an assistant professor of women's studies at Oglethorpe University. Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-211) and index. The average plantation was worked by 15 slaves. . IF IT IS TRUE that public sentiment, not abstract ideology, controlled the amount of miscegenation that took place in the nineteenth-century South, then what factors combined to create a place where an elite white male could rape a slave child and raise the offspring of that act of violence in his own household? In sharp contrast with the relative wealth of the county as a whole, approximately one-third of the white families in the county owned land but no slaves, and approximately one-third owned neither land nor slaves. The community vested the planter class with both the control of a disproportionate share of the wealth and with almost absolute legal power over a large segment of the labor force. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1949-1893, South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage, History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. One-fourth of the white population lived in towns and three-fourths lived in the country; population density was about seven people, or one family, per square mile. Yet it is much more than that. Woman of color, daughter of privilege Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 This edition published in 1995 by University of Georgia Press in Athens. 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Kent Anderson Leslie uses the events of Dickson's life to explore the forces driving southern race and gender relations from the days of King Cotton through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and New South eras. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.  US$12.87, US$26.12  US$19.30, US$26.67 In addition, in the county at large, there were twenty common schools. Nancy Watts owned 112 slaves in 1860, Mary Sasnett owned 76, and Mrs. W. E. Terrell owned 74. At the end of the antebellum period, based on income per capita, excluding slaves, Georgia was the richest state in the Union and Hancock County was one of its richest counties. Cotton was not available as a substitute because laborers could not separate cotton seeds from cotton fibers economically. Amanda America Dickson's birthplace, Hancock County, Georgia, is in the fertile so-called black belt of the state, 125 miles south and east of Atlanta, between the pre-Civil War capital of Milledgeville and the river-port city of Augusta (Map 1). The Book Depository Ltd.UK. By 1830 the county had established itself as a cotton-growing region. [Kent Anderson Leslie] -- Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege is the life story of an elite woman of color who lived within the social and economic systems of slavery and quasi-freedom in nineteenth-century Georgia. They remained the only white presence until 1732, when the British established the colony of Georgia.  US$28.00, US$27.06  US$31.95, US$22.78 By 1860 the leading fifty-six planter families, or 5 percent of the families in Hancock, owned more than half the land and 40 percent of the slaves. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 248. by Kent Anderson Leslie | Editorial Reviews. No railroad operated in the county at that time.  US$18.00, US$21.93 This slim volume is also eloquent testimony to a woman whose very identity and experiences called race-based slavery into question. After her father died in 1885 Dickson inherited most of his half-million dollar estate, sparking off two years of legal battles with white relatives. Additional Information. Yet it is much more than that. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege Book Description: This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, shows how strong-willed individuals defied racial strictures for the sake of family. Woman of color, daughter of privilege : Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893. . the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. This does not appear to have happened in Hancock County. And they could maintain their labor force at a subsistence level. In the middle group of agriculturalists, those worth between $1,001 and $9,999, slightly fewer than 8 percent owned real estate but no slaves.  US$22.99, US$34.26 Kent Anderson Leslie is an assistant professor of women's studies at Oglethorpe University. Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-211) and index. The average plantation was worked by 15 slaves. . IF IT IS TRUE that public sentiment, not abstract ideology, controlled the amount of miscegenation that took place in the nineteenth-century South, then what factors combined to create a place where an elite white male could rape a slave child and raise the offspring of that act of violence in his own household? In sharp contrast with the relative wealth of the county as a whole, approximately one-third of the white families in the county owned land but no slaves, and approximately one-third owned neither land nor slaves. The community vested the planter class with both the control of a disproportionate share of the wealth and with almost absolute legal power over a large segment of the labor force. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1949-1893, South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage, History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. One-fourth of the white population lived in towns and three-fourths lived in the country; population density was about seven people, or one family, per square mile. Yet it is much more than that. Woman of color, daughter of privilege Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 This edition published in 1995 by University of Georgia Press in Athens. 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Kent Anderson Leslie uses the events of Dickson's life to explore the forces driving southern race and gender relations from the days of King Cotton through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and New South eras. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.  US$12.87, US$26.12  US$19.30, US$26.67 In addition, in the county at large, there were twenty common schools. Nancy Watts owned 112 slaves in 1860, Mary Sasnett owned 76, and Mrs. W. E. Terrell owned 74. At the end of the antebellum period, based on income per capita, excluding slaves, Georgia was the richest state in the Union and Hancock County was one of its richest counties. Cotton was not available as a substitute because laborers could not separate cotton seeds from cotton fibers economically. Amanda America Dickson's birthplace, Hancock County, Georgia, is in the fertile so-called black belt of the state, 125 miles south and east of Atlanta, between the pre-Civil War capital of Milledgeville and the river-port city of Augusta (Map 1). The Book Depository Ltd.UK. By 1830 the county had established itself as a cotton-growing region. [Kent Anderson Leslie] -- Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege is the life story of an elite woman of color who lived within the social and economic systems of slavery and quasi-freedom in nineteenth-century Georgia. They remained the only white presence until 1732, when the British established the colony of Georgia.  US$28.00, US$27.06  US$31.95, US$22.78 By 1860 the leading fifty-six planter families, or 5 percent of the families in Hancock, owned more than half the land and 40 percent of the slaves. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 248. by Kent Anderson Leslie | Editorial Reviews. No railroad operated in the county at that time.  US$18.00, US$21.93 This slim volume is also eloquent testimony to a woman whose very identity and experiences called race-based slavery into question. After her father died in 1885 Dickson inherited most of his half-million dollar estate, sparking off two years of legal battles with white relatives. Additional Information. Yet it is much more than that. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege Book Description: This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, shows how strong-willed individuals defied racial strictures for the sake of family. Woman of color, daughter of privilege : Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893. . the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. This does not appear to have happened in Hancock County. And they could maintain their labor force at a subsistence level. In the middle group of agriculturalists, those worth between $1,001 and $9,999, slightly fewer than 8 percent owned real estate but no slaves.  US$22.99, US$34.26 Kent Anderson Leslie is an assistant professor of women's studies at Oglethorpe University. Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-211) and index. The average plantation was worked by 15 slaves. . IF IT IS TRUE that public sentiment, not abstract ideology, controlled the amount of miscegenation that took place in the nineteenth-century South, then what factors combined to create a place where an elite white male could rape a slave child and raise the offspring of that act of violence in his own household? In sharp contrast with the relative wealth of the county as a whole, approximately one-third of the white families in the county owned land but no slaves, and approximately one-third owned neither land nor slaves. The community vested the planter class with both the control of a disproportionate share of the wealth and with almost absolute legal power over a large segment of the labor force. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1949-1893, South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage, History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. One-fourth of the white population lived in towns and three-fourths lived in the country; population density was about seven people, or one family, per square mile. Yet it is much more than that. Woman of color, daughter of privilege Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 This edition published in 1995 by University of Georgia Press in Athens. 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Kent Anderson Leslie uses the events of Dickson's life to explore the forces driving southern race and gender relations from the days of King Cotton through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and New South eras. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.  US$12.87, US$26.12  US$19.30, US$26.67 In addition, in the county at large, there were twenty common schools. Nancy Watts owned 112 slaves in 1860, Mary Sasnett owned 76, and Mrs. W. E. Terrell owned 74. At the end of the antebellum period, based on income per capita, excluding slaves, Georgia was the richest state in the Union and Hancock County was one of its richest counties. Cotton was not available as a substitute because laborers could not separate cotton seeds from cotton fibers economically. Amanda America Dickson's birthplace, Hancock County, Georgia, is in the fertile so-called black belt of the state, 125 miles south and east of Atlanta, between the pre-Civil War capital of Milledgeville and the river-port city of Augusta (Map 1). The Book Depository Ltd.UK. By 1830 the county had established itself as a cotton-growing region. [Kent Anderson Leslie] -- Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege is the life story of an elite woman of color who lived within the social and economic systems of slavery and quasi-freedom in nineteenth-century Georgia. They remained the only white presence until 1732, when the British established the colony of Georgia.  US$28.00, US$27.06  US$31.95, US$22.78 By 1860 the leading fifty-six planter families, or 5 percent of the families in Hancock, owned more than half the land and 40 percent of the slaves. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 248. by Kent Anderson Leslie | Editorial Reviews. No railroad operated in the county at that time.  US$18.00, US$21.93 This slim volume is also eloquent testimony to a woman whose very identity and experiences called race-based slavery into question. After her father died in 1885 Dickson inherited most of his half-million dollar estate, sparking off two years of legal battles with white relatives. Additional Information. Yet it is much more than that. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege Book Description: This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, shows how strong-willed individuals defied racial strictures for the sake of family. Woman of color, daughter of privilege : Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893. . the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. This does not appear to have happened in Hancock County. And they could maintain their labor force at a subsistence level. In the middle group of agriculturalists, those worth between $1,001 and $9,999, slightly fewer than 8 percent owned real estate but no slaves.  US$22.99, US$34.26 Kent Anderson Leslie is an assistant professor of women's studies at Oglethorpe University. Edition Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-211) and index. The average plantation was worked by 15 slaves. . IF IT IS TRUE that public sentiment, not abstract ideology, controlled the amount of miscegenation that took place in the nineteenth-century South, then what factors combined to create a place where an elite white male could rape a slave child and raise the offspring of that act of violence in his own household? In sharp contrast with the relative wealth of the county as a whole, approximately one-third of the white families in the county owned land but no slaves, and approximately one-third owned neither land nor slaves. The community vested the planter class with both the control of a disproportionate share of the wealth and with almost absolute legal power over a large segment of the labor force. Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1949-1893, South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage, History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. One-fourth of the white population lived in towns and three-fourths lived in the country; population density was about seven people, or one family, per square mile. Yet it is much more than that. Woman of color, daughter of privilege Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 This edition published in 1995 by University of Georgia Press in Athens. 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