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.
Although legally a slave herself well into her ado.
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.
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