The Slave who Inherited a Fortune | Amanda America Dickson
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2020
- Welcome to Forgotten Lives! In today's episode, we are looking into the life of Amanda America Dickson a slave who inherited her fathers fortune becoming one of the wealthiest African Americans in the country!
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Sorry for the late upload! I'll be sure to get back on track this week!
Nothing to be sorry for. Just take your time and care. Thank you. Will wait now, i got first ad with 59 minutes long; but as always, let them all play for you. Stay safe!
It's your time, not ours. Do what you doing because it is working.
No Worries! Awesome Job on the Case U covered over on BC💙🤘😂 Enjoyed it Alot
Yes, I agree with Nicole V .... excellent reading on BCase. 💚
Thanks for the upload anyway ☺️
Hearing a slave being called a ‘mistress’ frustrates me. There’s no way the 12 year old consented to a sexual relationship.
You are so right, very frustrating. Not only that, there never could be consent when one of the people is literal property. It makes me sick when people try to say any of these relationships are love or consensual.
Fact! You are right! This is the way things/information is translated to us to cover up their real transgressions against our people as if what went on wasn’t so horrible. Right? It upsets me as well, sis.
@Verity Dixon it’s still sick, wrong, abusive and disgusting end of discussion.
Hearing any 12 year old called a mistress. Pedophile!
I agree. Our ancestors did not own their lives, and could be treated any way the owner wanted. This is an example of how laws were put into to control versus help the people.
Two things I will never understand on this planet, slavery and pedophilia.
@Lynn Ward Im with you on that a trillion percent
Power hungry pathetics
Exhibitionism is pretty baffling, too. It’s hard to understand why people insist upon publicly objectifying themselves while decrying objectification.
Theres a set of people for whom those two degenerate things are their way of life, & lately theyre becoming more open about their satanic ways
To the abyss with them!
Poor mother. 12 yrs old. Childbirth would have been horrific! My heart😭
most hurtful part. This continued well into the 20th c. . sen. Trummond committed this crime also . this is his daughter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essie_Mae_Washington-Williams when the story broke out and his caucasian family went above and beyond to deny he's ever had a mixed child who mum was barely 13.and trummond beat her repeatedly. The abuse we suffer at the hands of caucasians for just existing cannot be measured.
@@PHlophe that was not 100 the same thing. She was 16 and he was 22. She worked for him, wasn't owned, I do feel like thats 2 different sets of circumstances.
@@PHlophe also he financially supported her and paid for her college education
Childbirth is horrible at any age and in any era.
@@kristingallo2158 So, that makes raping her okay?!!!
This is my great great great grandmother. My uncle gifted me the book on her life when I was a very young child but I wasn’t really old enough to keep up and understand it. Thanks for posting this interesting video.
That's cool. You should learn more about your ancestry.
@Candace Dean do you all know anyone in the West family? They are down that way. Cordele. Vienna.
Looking at a map I see I'm off by a hundred miles. LOL! But great grandfather came out of that area...Hancock County.
This is also my family member my Greatmother's greatgrandfather is mentioned on page 70 they are from Spata.
I am sincerely moved by seeing those of you that are commenting to be descendants of this lady. That’s amazing! I hope you all are living positive and prosperous lives🙏🏾💗
Isn’t the term “a privileged slave” an oxymoron!
Absolutely
Crazy how easily it rolls off the lips tho 🙄🙄🙄
Yes
Not when you trying to white wash history and claim the Africans where immigrants.
Anyone with money is privileged...
I HATE how abusers will say things like “oh violence is never the answer” but then behind closed doors do things like SEXUALLY ASSAULT CHILDREN. How could a person actually think that they are justified in doing things like that??? And it can’t even be an answer as simple as “well he thought that because she was a slave it was his right” because people still do those same vile acts to children today now that slavery is banned. I will not ever understand how a person’s mind could be so perverted
The deep south is evil
@@Djchicago1 *was
Its sad that she had to pass in her 40s, but I'm glad to see her mother and sons and husband could share her inheritance. Her mother especially. I feel so terribly sorry for how she suffered most of her life.
Yes.
White supremacy in action.
Where did you get the information on the inheritance? And how it was split?
@@globetrotter5800 MO
@Globe Trotter if you watched the video you would have heard him say that her husband, mother and son came to in agreement and split everything
Wow I feel bad for her mom...
Same
He was a Monster.
Metoo
At least he made sure the daughter got all the money
The same thing happened to my grandmother she was 5yrs old when she watched her mother and brother be sold. She never saw them again. America should admit the wrong they committed against women of color.
I love that she protected her step daughter from her own son. What a beautiful mother. In spite of everything she endured she took forward the best of her situation
Probably because he was acting like his granddad. Sick in the head cousins shouldn’t marry.
Isn't it funny how the female is still being punished for the misdeeds of men. Her flesh and blood was the culprit.
Movie about her is called A House Divided. Has Jennifer Beals playing Amanda Dixon.
Yes, I've seen it. It's a real sad but eye opening movie. They did a great job with it.
I thought the story was familiar!
I love that movie!!
What channel is it on? Does anyone know?
Thanks for the info about the film xx
She was so lovely, how horrible that only 150 years ago this was allowed. Disgusting.
Very very disgusting
Stuff worse than this is happening right now! Forced sex slavery all over the world...more than likely where you also live.
rebecca worse than slavery right now ? i think not
@@kool100500 No it's not as bad from when people were traded but slavery ALL over the world exists today....& it's dire.
@@zoe9632 black lives matter, all lives matter! American Slavery was bad, human trafficking is just as bad today. 😣
I'm having a hard time understanding how Amanda was treated so well and raised in the family when her mother was treated so badly.
@L Singletary oh I'm not one of those who's all offended by everything going on everywhere. I was just musing on a pseudo intellectual level abt the whole situation 😉
@L Singletary oh I'm not one of those who's all offended by everything going on everywhere. I was just musing on a pseudo intellectual level abt the whole situation 😉
@L Singletary I don't understand what fibre of your being can actual say 'how was that treating her badly' The whole situation was sick. A man in his 40s rapes an enslaved girl 12 years of age. He supposedly treated the girl well, but treated the mother like trash. Even if he left some wealth, nothing can erase the trauma that 12 year old girl faced. These types of contradictions explain why some folks continue to behave the way they do in these current generations.
@L Singletary the video stated that the girl he raped, the mother of his child, worked in the home and was treated horribly. She had to meet all of his needs, including his sexual needs. That all seems pretty horrible. The mother left in charge of the plantation when he was away seems to have been his own mother.
@L Singletary and you’ll always pretend to know who I really am.
13 having a child poor girl , my heart breaks for her
Exactly! I’m 33 and having one and it’s no joke! Poor baby barely began to develop 🤭
What’s sad is that I know women today who went through this. A friend’s mother had her when the mother was in 14. The friend’s father was also her mother’s uncle.
I can relate 💯 My 5th great grandmother was born a slave from a Seminole/Black mother and a Irish/Cherokee man. She ended up the only child from her father and became the legitimate heir and inherited everything in her 30s.
Nice. Makes me feel kinda lucky about hitting the lottery in the surname category😎
The story of our ancestors surely was sad, and it is disturbing that he father had the nerve to take her from her mother. Ive heard of too many stories like this one. The evil laws during slavery.
This world is evil
Amanda is my grandson's paternal 7th cousin. I had heard her story from his other grandmother, but I did not know she died at 43, outlived her mother, or was married to the husband who seems to be a suspect in her death. Quite a story to share with her ancestors.
So you're saying her mother didn't out live her as the guy narrating the story said and you're saying her husband may have had something to do with her death 🤔
Amanda is my cousin.
It’s awful how this lady was conceived and how her father treated her mother , it’s also very surprising that her father actually treated her like his child
@L Singletary Yes a Man can be a RAPIST and not love his daughter/son as to be reminded of the awful deed his committed as the person stated above it is rare and surprising. Normally a child conceived out of rape is sent off to be raised elsewhere.
I find it surprising too as this man was obviously a monster!!!😡
Wife probably couldn't bear kids. Ppl would be so surprised if they knew how much black ancestry they have in them ( white ppl) stemming from black slave women whose fathers were the white masters. How many were freed by these white masters and how they left going north and passing marrying white man or woman..!! Dig deep it alk stems from slavery!!
@L Singletary The South was NOT complex in its race relations. This is a rare story. The ONLY place in the South for which it can be said that race relations were complex is Louisiana, which had been colonized by the French; they had a different attitude towards race than Anglo-Americans. The fact of the matter is that most white men did NOT treat their black children like their children; they didn't even acknowledge them in most cases. Almost all Black Americans descend from white men. If it was common for white men to love their black children, most Black Americans would have ancestors with stories like Amanda's, yet we do not. Most black children of white men remained yet another piece of property, and were even sold away from the family with no care about the fact that the child was actually related.
Back in my small northeast Louisiana small predominantly Black segregated town where a Black man could be lynched for looking at a white woman, but several white men would drive around on the Black side of town seeking sex with IMPOVERISHED young Black women and pay them money, there were several little "High Yellow" beautiful Black girls who were raised no different in the segregated town than DARKER Blacks, because there were also light skin dudes like myself who did not have a white parent, but both parents were light skin and we were all in the same boat ha ha.. However, there were several of the young beautiful Mixed race Black girls whose white family members would pick them up on Friday evenings after school after dark to take them out to their family farm in the rural country areas to stay the entire weekend until early Sunday Night for school on Monday's.. In fact, this one mixed race girl was gifted a new Toyota car by her white grandparents while she was still in Junior High School, and they would pick her up on Friday nights after school to stay the entire weekends out in what we would call "Out In The Country" ha ha. There were actually schools in "SOUTH" Louisiana that only enrolled LIGHT SKIN Black children that were set up by white parents of mixed Black children, because they wanted the best for their children, and they LOVED them and did not want them treated like the other Black children.. There was a "RULE" about a "BROWN PAPER BAG" which meant that if a Black child was darker than that yellow/light brown bag they could not be enrolled.. That late U.S. Senator name Strom Thurmond from North Carolina who was RACIST to the BONE was the father of a Black woman who he supported very well, paid for her to attend one of the best HBCU'S, and she became a teacher.. She was interviewed on a TV program, and she stated that he treated her better than most fathers, and that she asked him why was he such as racist, but still loved her..
I have been researching my family history through AncestryDNA. My family oral history said that my second great grandfather was a white slave owner. He fathered my great grandfather with a 16 year old enslaved girl. Now I have seen the documents on AncestryDNA. I have seen my family name on a slave registry from 1860. It brought tears to my eyes. He owned two young women at the time and one of them is probably my 2nd great grandmother. It pains me to think of sexual abuse the young women were subjected to.
@L Singletary what the hell are you talking about. I don’t hate anybody, but my history is my history and can’t be denied. I have the right to feel the way I feel. What kind of brain and thought process do you have that would make you think I don’t care about children being abused today? But that’s not the topic on this post. You obviously are one of those people who are tired of hearing about it and are uncomfortable about the topic of slavery and wish we would stop talking about it. It’s a part of American history. Lastly, this post is a year old. Move on.
Thank you for this informative story about, Amanda Dickson. I heard of a case very similar to this years ago, but the woman who was a slave had at least six children perhaps more by her bachelor slave owner. He left all of his wealth to her and the children, his relatives tried to contest the will, but lost.
Pity factor? You sound like a lost causer. The South lost, slavery was never ok, period. Get over it.
What a remarkable woman. I think her death was suspicious, but maybe just horribly misdiagnosed. Thank you for telling her story.
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There's a first time for everything. Every African slave who was originally free had to be captured at SOME point. Amanda led a life of white privilege which was nonetheless tenuous because she was never legally emancipated prior to the Civil War. Therefore she was susceptible to being lumped in with the South's destitute "freed slaves" afterwards. Perhaps she ultimately became a test subject for how to wheedle blacks back into slavery spider web-style.
Also, the preferred targets of active economic conquest are high-status individuals, because there's much to be gained by doing so.
Dirterica Christian Country my Ass.
That's what I thought, poisoning?
My great great grandmother was a slave and inherited a vast fortune in1807...very similar story
Thank you. This is my first time hearing about this interesting Lady.
Thanks for watching!
Yes. My first time also.
THANK YOU.......
SLAVERY HAS BEEN IN OUR WORLD SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, AND STILL HERE WE THE PPL ARE.... WE ARE ALL UNDER A FORM OF SLAVERY NO MATTER OF COLOR. THE RICH GET RICHER AND US POOR GET POORER.
I AM GLAD HER DAD EDUCATED HER AND WILL ALL TO HER..... THIS LADY WAS AN INSPIRATION...TO ALL TO HAVE FAITH, AND COURAGE AND LOVE GOD.
You can watch her movie on UA-cam called a house divided
What !!! raping 12 years old shocking
Forgotten Lives There was a movie made by her starring Jennifer Beals.
Slavery was ignorant, her grandmother was her owner. 🤦♀️
🙄🙄THAT'S WHAT I SAID AWFUL JUST AWFUL
Yes, and as awful as it is and was, belonging to her grandmother was better than being owned by someone who would’ve hurt her and really treated her like a slave. It’s amazing of all of the stories I’ve ever heard. To think that WE as a people, survived in spite of it all. Slavery and that time not far removed,.......😥
He taught other farmers how not to mistreat those enslaved, but continued to rape Julia and demand sexual favors? How contradictory was that? Then others pretend that kind of past stuff does not affect how black women are devalued today. We need to heal.
She married her first white cousin as well wth
Her mother didnt want her...look up movie" a house divided"
Such a great story!! Glad that the law was on her side back then despite her color. What an interesting tale indeed.
Regardless of how some try to make slavery just, America has a lot disgusting behavior to pay for. God says you shall reap what you have sown, that means America also.
Slavery is a big deal in the Muslim world
AGREED.
@@RonAllenTaylor i guess that justifies slavery. Well I'm glad we solved that issue SMFH
Intelligent Thinker LOL that’s cute.
You are correct. Every one of us will stand before God almighty and give an a point of what we did good and bad. This not only applies to slavery but idle words, looting (Thou shalt not Steal), assaults, coveting what is not yours. If you break one you break them all. We are all without sin. I do not agree with BLM tactics on destroying the country when more than 3/4 were supportive and bet that more than half have stopped their support.
My grandmother, born in northern Alberta, Canada, was essentially a Cree Slave, as her father basically sold her at the young age of 11yrs old, to a French Speaking couple, with many children, as a housekeeper, & nanny. She married my grandfather at the young age of 14, he was in his early 20's, I think 24yrs old. Slavery still exists, all over the world, and the shame of it all, is often hidden. My heart breaks.
You couldn’t marry a black person but you sure could marry your cousin first cousin at that lls good ole souf smh
That’s what I was thinking. Just nasty!
why was i thinking this exact thought, then paused the video TO FIND THIS COMMENT lmao
You can still marry your first cousin.
@@Bluelotusflower22 yeah, why?
@@b1k2q34 i like to see if other people are thinking what im thinking lol
Thank you. As someone living in Atlanta, but from Augusta and who has many relatives in Hancock County, GA I am shocked to learn this story and even more shocked that I never heard this story before!
My heart is breaking for Amanda and all the slaves and for the children 💔 in this day and age that are still being raped and mistreated.
The only reason Amanda was 'afforded' these 'privileges' was b/c she was: "Light, bright, and nearly white". In other words she was someone who could, "pass for white". Not to unusual of a story.
There was much more of this going on, in LA under a social 'system' / custom known as, PLACAGE (pronounced Plah-sahge. French pronunciation).
exactly not unusual AT ALL!
And, thus, we got French Creoles. Having first hand knowledge and experience as a Louisiana Creole, I can say that this went on for decades up until my generation came along in the 1980s. Although placage became REALLY illegal after slavery, most French Creoles married within their own families to preserve the culture and the language. It really wasn't until recently that they began marrying outside of the culture and identifying as black especially when they began moving out of Louisiana in the 1940s and went west to Texas and California. The difference between this story and my ancestors is that Amanda's poor mother was raped whereas placage "marriages" were consensual and were often orchestrated by the girl's mother or grandmother. I believe the orchestration of placage went down at what was known as "Creole Balls" or later on known as "LaLa Dance". I know...boring history lesson and y'all probably don't care lol
@@adriyenn not boring at all. Thanks for sharing your history with us.
@Welcome 2 Jamrock I feel like it stems from the "one drop" rule that was forced out by slave masters of that time, however, the only folks who still adhere to that stupid rule are us black folks. I'm not sure why we're so quick to police someone's racial identity.
@@adriyenn YES. I DO CARE AND I LOVE ALL HUMANES AS LONG AS THEY TREAT ME NICE.... AND I WILL TREAT THEM NICE AND BE RESPECTABLE TO ALL HUMANES IF TREATED FAIRLY.
I WAS TAUGHT TO BE KIND TO OTHERS NO MATTER, SKIN COLOR.... I LOVE MANY THAT ARE MANY CULTURES. AND I SEND LOVE AND HUGS TO YOU.
What a story! I am a little shocked that this appeared in my feed... because My Name is actually - JULIA FRANCIS - 😳 How wierd is that!!! How the Universe works!?🤔
I saw a movie about this. It showed that Amanda's mother became Mr. Dixon's bookkeeper and that Amanda inherited only because her Mother couldn't. And it indicated Amanda's treatment if her Mother was very poor until the inheritance. It seemed Amanda's Mother had a very hard life until Dixon died.
It’s called a house divided
Thank you for your research and helping to preserve the stories of these women.
Thanks for the comment!
I felt sorry for her mother 😔
This was a movie starring Jennifer Beals ( who is half black, half white). I think the name of the movie was "A House Divided".
What a fascinating story! Its history like this, that should be taught in schools! Greedy relatives sent her to an early grave in some ways! Thanks!
You have a good point. And as an American historian and church historian, I tried to teach that way. But I was astounded at how little students supposedly-well-backgrounded in history, civics, and real American culture were, and how dull they thought it. So I tried to make the facts a [his/her/]-story. And it worked! My classes were always full! I guess that's why I like "Forgotten Lives" so well 🙂😃🙂 !!
Agreed, glad you enjoyed!
She probably had something else wrong with her as things like that don't usually kill people.
I'm wondering if she was poisoned.
It is really surprising to me that she was able to take her case all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court and win. In those days, black people had few rights. I hope she passed it along to the next generation to become a dynasty.
well you didn't listen to the end. She died at 43 and failed to have a will! After her rights were protected by one, it boggles the mind. Her mother, husband of 1 year, and sons split her estate.
@@angelaj8958 at least it was her family who received it and not her fathers relatives.
@Welcome 2 Jamrock - Well, during those times she was considered black. Her story is similar to my family story, but my female ancestor got to keep the land that slave owner/ ancestor male left to her. That land and the family church is still there. My family has always called themselves black. However in today's society, I don't consider biracial to be black because those are willing participants. But for historical reference she is black.
@John Allen her wealth I'm sure was somehow swindled away or stolen from her which is oftentimes the case especially where Black people are concerned
@@mommimommi5014 thank you. Amanda was Black.
Thanks for this triste yet moving and inspiring story of Amanda Dixon. For me, as a 19th Century American historian, this was your best presentation yet : interestingly and accurately presented, with appropriate illustrations. During my teaching and writing career, like yourself, I tried to feature undeservedly forgotten people like Amanda; and found that classes responded well to this, as I always devoted 1 lecture a week, to an individual biography, during which the students were required NOT to take notes and trying to balance the forgotten with the famous : a good way to teach the real sweep of this country's history. Keep up the good work! I always enjoy your thumbnail portraits, and learn much from them!!🙂🙂🙂🙂
Thank you very much :D
Privileged slave is an oxymoron
New husband poisoned her for the estate?
I totally believe this. Shame.
I am shocked that she did not have a will. Especially considering all that she went through to get her inheritance and the fact that she had 2 kids and young mom
That was the norm in the old days
She was not a slave. She was an enslaved human being.
Christopher Censullo
So she was a slave then, made to be slave my other humans. I have been a slave as well, when I was raped. Now I am a survivor.
Thank you!!
@@lumijasminasmr3583 Don't even try it. It's not the same thing. It was illegal to rape you. Back then the law said that Black women could not be raped, meaning that white men were allowed to rape us with impunity. Don't try to relate and bring up some event that's not even relevant. Just sit with the uncomfortable truth and knowledge of what happened to millions of Black women even up until the 1960s. Sit with it and feel it. Deal with it. You don't have to try to empathize.
@@RosalindGash Rosalind, it is possible to be a white slave and constantly raped. It is even possible in several countries to be legal. It is just as reprehensible to make light of the slavery of white women as it is to make light of black women who were slaves. Neither is right. If I had lived then I could have been a slave. Even though the black in my family line is several generations back. Almost a hundred years.
Rosalind Gash ; not even the 1960’s... many rapes were not filed or investigated up to the 1990’s. Scary & sad.
This is a good example of how a person can overcome anything with the right mindset. Even though she was enslaved and mistreated, she was determined to have an education and good life for her children. What a sad but wonderful story. Idk to be sad or happy for this beautiful woman.
The compartmentalization that went on with these monster slave owners - Jesus Christ. Every American should hear these stories. Amanda was very lucky in some ways and her life was very sad in others, and we can never know some of the details that would tell us what her life was really like. It's hopeful though that the courts actually upheld that will and set a precedent!
Very interesting. How sad that she didn’t get to enjoy her husband and a calm, relaxing life.
I'm guessing she was probably so damaged emotionally it would have been very hard for her to find contentment .
@@jenjen.rutherford8559 those days they didn't though the way we do.
you mean her cousin
@@cygnevara8400 She had a second husband named Nathan Toomer whom was also mixed.
Sounds like her second husband was an opportunist.
So many stories like this that isn't told. Our history is so nonchalantly approached.
You did a great job narrating this story. I loved it. The fact she got to keep her inheritance back in those days to me is a miracle! Thank you.
*Her* *middle* *name* was, *“America?”* *Beautiful,* very *unique!*
You are doing a good service by bringing attention to remarkable people most of us didn't know about and you do it with respect.
Thanks for the support ☺️
Well at least her father took care of his daughter and grandchildren. That was more than some slave holders did. Life was very different back in those days. She was a lovely lady in spite of the difficulties of prejudice. Loved the Brief Case video you narrated.💙
Men, women and sex were all viewed very differently back then. It was considered a woman's duty to satisfy her husband whether or not she enjoyed it. Throw slavery into the mix and you have a really terrible situation. We're all quite lucky to be here today instead of a couple of centuries ago. I figure that he wasn't a really good guy, but without knowing more about his relationship with the mother he was far from the worst of his time. He may have treated her somewhat like a wife or he may have been her lifelong tormentor.
@@dylvasey correction sir....he raped a 12 year old and got her pregnant..not banged..
Melsteriffic Mama That’s a ridiculous argument. He was a rapist, plain and simple.
@@dylvasey Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin in 1958.
@Zulu Immortal Dont worry Im sure they will get theirs.
Wonderful remembrance. Thank you for sharing.
Actually Ms. Julia was very intelligent she actually knew how to read and write before she came to him . She helped run the plantation . Amanda didnt know julia was her birth mother she was told her birthmother died having her . Thought MS. Julia remained her nurse maid her Grandmother raised her in the house
They left that out... Her last owner taught the slave how to read and write
And still she was raped. AND she was a child.
@@shadowess1961 exactly they leave that out
A very interesting and informative video. I have never heard of Amanda. Shame she passed away at such a young age. Thank you 😊
Interesting. Thank-you for these stories. Affluent America needs to hear these stories and think about how we can honor these ppl who thrived despite one atrocity after another.
Well done! Thank you for posting this.
Nice that this kind if story doesn't get censored.
On a different note: I think the husband did it!
Thank you! I enjoyed it completely. Very interesting, very informative, very well written!!!!! Loved it
This was a very interesting eposide. Thank you for such informative well presented and honest content. There was a movie based on her life story. Unfortunately it softened and romanticized the horrible institution of slavery.
Another great video from you. Very interesting story of someone that I had never heard of. Thank you for all your great information. Your videos are always so interesting.
Thank you so much for sharing this important story. I wish they would teach this in schools.
Looking forward to listening to this on my morning walk! You are awesome!
Thanks very much!!
That was a GREAT video! I loved how honestly you presented the information. Well done!
Thanks!
She should have made sure she had a will after the struggle she had. Then left it all to her mother.
I doubt if she had contact with her mother
Thank youuu! I truly enjoyed this documentary. That's what I call it. Very informational and well put together. I found myself relating to her inlaws. Excellent! 5 stars🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
50 percent of the white population has black ancestors ain't that funny it might be more 🤣
@maxx mabemwe good, i hope science definitely without doubt proves we are all the bloody same blood line. Cheers, your cousin 463x removed.....! 💗
@maxx mabemwe yes thanks I had read about it a while ago but i did again after dinner tonight. I think it's great, i understand that the colour of a person's skin causes so many problems in the world and hoped that it would maybe change views of assholes if we are all related
Wishful thinking hey. Goodnight maxx mabemwe
I don’t think it’s that high, but it wouldn’t matter if it was.
@@karyndewit193 it is more than 50 percent
@maxx mabemwe 100% wrong. If you read the Bible people came from the mideast. At one time everyone spoke one language. When God created language the people went their seperate ways . Some went North, orhers went South onto the African contenent others traveled East. 🎈🎈
Thank you FLives! Welcome back! Will enjoy that before bed time. I shall will love it as always! Have good night
Sweet Dreams Elke B💟😇🙏💤💤
@9:09 pm Tuesday evening.
Have a nice Wednesday/🐪humpDAY🐫💚
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@@nancyM1313 Nancy! 3:20am here. Have nice hump day too!🐫🐪 Special hello back to Riley!🐈 No work tomorrow!
Enjoy ur forgotten & unknown stories keep up the good work very informative!!!
I love this story! Thank you for sharing you documentaries they are all intriguing!
I'm glad she got her money.
Thanks for the upload.
Thanks for watching!
The entire situation is disturbing, disgusting and inhumane.
Doing these videos gives me ideas for stories and I am learning about people I never knew about. Thank you so much for posting!
Thank you..for this important history lesson...look forward for the next one.
Enjoyed learning about this lady. Thanks for information
Watching the Movie about Amanda truly opened my eyes to the sad, sinister times of Slavery.
@Forgotten Lives This needs far more thumbs up than I possess. Excellent video. Thanks and ❤️ from Pennsylvania.
Great story FL 👏👏👏 Narrated to perfection 👌
Typical male doc diagnoses her with "it's all in your head" and she dies 2 days later. Her symptoms almost sound like poisoning.
Saw a film about this story. It made the mother and father seem to have a romantic relationship. Also, it portrayed the mother as being a young woman, not a 12 yo child
Such a fascinating story! Thanks for sharing. Great work!
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating you hold my attention the whole way through never taking my eyes off the screen listening to you tell the history
The ending was nice. It was pleasant to hear her family came to an agreement about the fortune and the estate without having to take it to court.
Oh they went to court... She won... It's been going on for years... They felt that no half colored girl should receive anything
Thank you so very much for this most informative video.Amanda America Dickson was a most fascinating woman and I'm grateful that you introduced me to her via your video.I intend to see if I can find a book about her and avidly read more about her.
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So, her mother was still alive? Good thing that she got the inheritance from her deceased daughter. I'm happy that the greedy relatives didn't inherit anything from Amanda's father's Estate nor from Amanda.
Awesome 👏 thank you for sharing this story! I love history!!!
Her dad really loved her. Too bad he treated the mother so badly. Strange.
He certainly did love his daughter most slave masters never left anything to their children but he was a monster to the mom yet loved his daughter strange
A Financial payoff isnt love... its hush money. At best, he felt guilt . I doubt people like that are capable of love
It is strange. I'm surprised about him claiming his daughter after what he did. But good that he did!
@@stephaniesherrill8669 excellent point!
Have you thought- maybe he had no other children and she was so light skinned she could pass for white - was why he claimed her in the first place? Not love but necessity?
Sad ending for Amanda! Very interesting story B. c.
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Thanks FL. Always enjoy your narrations. 👍
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for another fascinating story! Good job narrating for BC also.
Thank you :D
This was a great video, Amanda was a popular slave name in Georgia, my mother's , Mother side of the family, my great great grandmother was named Amanda, who was a freed slave in Quitman, Georgia, black and Cherokee native American ,who I named my oldest daughter after, my great great grandmother married John Bell also freed slave , and they work hard took care of family and bought different properties in Georgia and Florida whom our family just sold some of the properties and divided among the Aires.
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Bless you, sista. Make sure to keep up with your family history, so you can pass it on. Too much of our history is forgotten, and the next generation is left out.
My second great grandfather was a white slave owner who was born in Quitman, Georgia. I’m researching family history and just noticed that coincidence.
i am caucasian. my mother wanted to name me amanda but my father s mother would not allow it--she thought people would think i was mixed blood
I like how she named her firstborn after her mom ❤
She named her first born after her uncles.her son green dickson was named after my 4thgreat grandpa
Wow, very well made video. We have been trying to preserve history too. Thanks for the inspiration!
Very, very interesting! Thank you. I truly enjoyed it.
Enjoyed the story. Will watch for more.
Glad to hear it!
This was appreciated 🥰
Im so glad people finally got w the program and started watching your videos!!! LOOK AT THOSE VIEWS!!!! congrats
Thank you for producing this film.
I love her story, I know someone else who lived a similar life, in many , many ways.
"Violence isn't necessary" but physical, sexual, and emotional violence against children and women sure is fun and makes me feel like a big man! 😒
There. I articulated his complete philosophy.
Wow, i had to read your post twice before it sunk in......
Your right, Truth and spot on
This just makes me feel sick glad your not my neighbour I would surely give you a wallop
@@patriciacalunniato6872 If that's what I really thought, I'd deserve it and much more. I was finishing that slave owner's sentence.
@@adoxartist1258 actually I get it wooops
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I most certainly did enjoy that history of Amanda. Thx u!!