The Slave who Inherited a Fortune | Amanda America Dickson

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  • čas pƙidĂĄn 13. 07. 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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  • @ForgottenLives
    @ForgottenLives  Pƙed 4 lety +295

    Sorry for the late upload! I'll be sure to get back on track this week!

    • @ELKE-
      @ELKE- Pƙed 4 lety +24

      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!

    • @bobbierobinson6269
      @bobbierobinson6269 Pƙed 4 lety +26

      It's your time, not ours. Do what you doing because it is working.

    • @nicolevarnam2290
      @nicolevarnam2290 Pƙed 4 lety +13

      No Worries! Awesome Job on the Case U covered over on BCđŸ’™đŸ€˜đŸ˜‚ Enjoyed it Alot

    • @nancyM1313
      @nancyM1313 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      Yes, I agree with Nicole V .... excellent reading on BCase. 💚

    • @thishappycrafter272
      @thishappycrafter272 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      Thanks for the upload anyway â˜ș

  • @tamilynngsu01
    @tamilynngsu01 Pƙed 3 lety +1818

    Hearing a slave being called a ‘mistress’ frustrates me. There’s no way the 12 year old consented to a sexual relationship.

    • @PAgirl790
      @PAgirl790 Pƙed 3 lety +229

      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.

    • @Choosewisely1-3
      @Choosewisely1-3 Pƙed 3 lety +121

      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.

    • @b.alexisbeauty5013
      @b.alexisbeauty5013 Pƙed 3 lety +112

      @Verity Dixon it’s still sick, wrong, abusive and disgusting end of discussion.

    • @iamjustsaying4787
      @iamjustsaying4787 Pƙed 3 lety +69

      Hearing any 12 year old called a mistress. Pedophile!

    • @AuthorLHollingsworth
      @AuthorLHollingsworth Pƙed 3 lety +68

      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.

  • @trinibarbie2161
    @trinibarbie2161 Pƙed 3 lety +632

    Two things I will never understand on this planet, slavery and pedophilia.

    • @trinibarbie2161
      @trinibarbie2161 Pƙed 3 lety +10

      @Lynn Ward Im with you on that a trillion percent

    • @marybethjordan8520
      @marybethjordan8520 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Power hungry pathetics

    • @myrtle1234
      @myrtle1234 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      Exhibitionism is pretty baffling, too. It’s hard to understand why people insist upon publicly objectifying themselves while decrying objectification.

    • @YT_HATES_FREE_SPEECH
      @YT_HATES_FREE_SPEECH Pƙed 3 lety +2

      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

    • @KingofgraceSARA
      @KingofgraceSARA Pƙed 3 lety +15

      To the abyss with them!

  • @nubiankhaleesi2945
    @nubiankhaleesi2945 Pƙed 4 lety +1454

    Poor mother. 12 yrs old. Childbirth would have been horrific! My heart😭

    • @PHlophe
      @PHlophe Pƙed 4 lety +44

      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.

    • @kristingallo2158
      @kristingallo2158 Pƙed 4 lety +19

      @@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.

    • @kristingallo2158
      @kristingallo2158 Pƙed 4 lety +11

      @@PHlophe also he financially supported her and paid for her college education

    • @charmedlilsis1
      @charmedlilsis1 Pƙed 4 lety +47

      Childbirth is horrible at any age and in any era.

    • @marblessed9597
      @marblessed9597 Pƙed 4 lety +32

      @@kristingallo2158 So, that makes raping her okay?!!!

  • @bcd1236
    @bcd1236 Pƙed 3 lety +1235

    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.

    • @nicolejennings8389
      @nicolejennings8389 Pƙed 3 lety +57

      That's cool. You should learn more about your ancestry.

    • @lookn4crazystuff
      @lookn4crazystuff Pƙed 3 lety +22

      @Candace Dean do you all know anyone in the West family? They are down that way. Cordele. Vienna.

    • @lookn4crazystuff
      @lookn4crazystuff Pƙed 3 lety +18

      Looking at a map I see I'm off by a hundred miles. LOL! But great grandfather came out of that area...Hancock County.

    • @lareeutley1906
      @lareeutley1906 Pƙed 3 lety +39

      This is also my family member my Greatmother's greatgrandfather is mentioned on page 70 they are from Spata.

    • @TracyAllenVideos
      @TracyAllenVideos Pƙed 3 lety +86

      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 livesđŸ™đŸŸđŸ’—

  • @PotatoTrain
    @PotatoTrain Pƙed 4 lety +400

    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

    • @fenique2
      @fenique2 Pƙed 4 lety +25

      Probably because he was acting like his granddad. Sick in the head cousins shouldn’t marry.

    • @Reese_Cup
      @Reese_Cup Pƙed 4 lety +32

      Isn't it funny how the female is still being punished for the misdeeds of men. Her flesh and blood was the culprit.

  • @Its_sabribri
    @Its_sabribri Pƙed 3 lety +84

    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

  • @maureentuohy9423
    @maureentuohy9423 Pƙed 4 lety +1486

    Isn’t the term “a privileged slave” an oxymoron!

  • @punkkimiko
    @punkkimiko Pƙed 4 lety +741

    Wow I feel bad for her mom...

    • @Melody-mu6nk
      @Melody-mu6nk Pƙed 4 lety +14

      Same

    • @janetcw9808
      @janetcw9808 Pƙed 4 lety +51

      He was a Monster.

    • @TinaFivesten
      @TinaFivesten Pƙed 4 lety +5

      Metoo

    • @minastirith997
      @minastirith997 Pƙed 4 lety +12

      At least he made sure the daughter got all the money

    • @dorothykirkland9989
      @dorothykirkland9989 Pƙed 4 lety +23

      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.

  • @dejaserenity493
    @dejaserenity493 Pƙed 3 lety +290

    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.

    • @douglasjones2570
      @douglasjones2570 Pƙed rokem +1

      Yes.
      White supremacy in action.

    • @globetrotter5800
      @globetrotter5800 Pƙed rokem +3

      Where did you get the information on the inheritance? And how it was split?

    • @carolgerhardt4890
      @carolgerhardt4890 Pƙed rokem +1

      @@globetrotter5800 MO

    • @Erik-kx9qn
      @Erik-kx9qn Pƙed rokem +6

      @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

  • @carinnemd182
    @carinnemd182 Pƙed 4 lety +559

    She was so lovely, how horrible that only 150 years ago this was allowed. Disgusting.

    • @fahadfaraj1822
      @fahadfaraj1822 Pƙed 4 lety +3

      Very very disgusting

    • @zoe9632
      @zoe9632 Pƙed 4 lety +20

      Stuff worse than this is happening right now! Forced sex slavery all over the world...more than likely where you also live.

    • @kool100500
      @kool100500 Pƙed 4 lety +9

      rebecca worse than slavery right now ? i think not

    • @zoe9632
      @zoe9632 Pƙed 4 lety +10

      @@kool100500 No it's not as bad from when people were traded but slavery ALL over the world exists today....& it's dire.

    • @jancoo2029
      @jancoo2029 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      @@zoe9632 black lives matter, all lives matter! American Slavery was bad, human trafficking is just as bad today. 😣

  • @tinacollins9213
    @tinacollins9213 Pƙed 4 lety +145

    13 having a child poor girl , my heart breaks for her

    • @trinidadianbeauty1
      @trinidadianbeauty1 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      Exactly! I’m 33 and having one and it’s no joke! Poor baby barely began to develop đŸ€­

    • @pleasedroses3811
      @pleasedroses3811 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      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.

  • @ShavaChihera
    @ShavaChihera Pƙed 4 lety +613

    Movie about her is called A House Divided. Has Jennifer Beals playing Amanda Dixon.

  • @RainbowBrite80
    @RainbowBrite80 Pƙed rokem +159

    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.

    • @RainbowBrite80
      @RainbowBrite80 Pƙed rokem +10

      @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 😉

    • @RainbowBrite80
      @RainbowBrite80 Pƙed rokem

      @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 😉

    • @phylliskumi4355
      @phylliskumi4355 Pƙed rokem +55

      @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.

    • @imho5485
      @imho5485 Pƙed rokem

      @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.

    • @imho5485
      @imho5485 Pƙed rokem +1

      @L Singletary and you’ll always pretend to know who I really am.

  • @mddarkwood1872
    @mddarkwood1872 Pƙed 3 lety +71

    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.

    • @the2ndcoming135
      @the2ndcoming135 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      Nice. Makes me feel kinda lucky about hitting the lottery in the surname category😎

  • @AuthorLHollingsworth
    @AuthorLHollingsworth Pƙed 3 lety +86

    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.

  • @misstriciaskitchen8640
    @misstriciaskitchen8640 Pƙed 3 lety +80

    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.

    • @misstriciaskitchen8640
      @misstriciaskitchen8640 Pƙed rokem +1

      @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.

  • @roperryinspirationalvoices1421
    @roperryinspirationalvoices1421 Pƙed 4 lety +330

    Slavery was ignorant, her grandmother was her owner. đŸ€Šâ€â™€ïž

    • @thislibraissomodest6046
      @thislibraissomodest6046 Pƙed 4 lety +12

      🙄🙄THAT'S WHAT I SAID AWFUL JUST AWFUL

    • @sunnirnDEC
      @sunnirnDEC Pƙed 3 lety +11

      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,.......đŸ˜„

    • @roperryinspirationalvoices1421
      @roperryinspirationalvoices1421 Pƙed 3 lety +11

      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.

    • @tishthedish1533
      @tishthedish1533 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      She married her first white cousin as well wth

    • @knowledgeberakah1728
      @knowledgeberakah1728 Pƙed 3 lety

      Her mother didnt want her...look up movie" a house divided"

  • @katiekat8329
    @katiekat8329 Pƙed 4 lety +129

    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

    • @MUSICPARADISE01
      @MUSICPARADISE01 Pƙed rokem

      @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.

    • @julielevinge266
      @julielevinge266 Pƙed rokem +16

      I find it surprising too as this man was obviously a monster!!!😡

    • @1goldbaby
      @1goldbaby Pƙed rokem

      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!!

    • @anyaw340
      @anyaw340 Pƙed rokem +5

      @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.

    • @etruscancivilization
      @etruscancivilization Pƙed rokem

      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..

  • @ChikuAwaliDreena
    @ChikuAwaliDreena Pƙed 3 lety +46

    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.

    • @Erik-kx9qn
      @Erik-kx9qn Pƙed rokem +2

      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 đŸ€”

    • @lareeutley1906
      @lareeutley1906 Pƙed rokem +2

      Amanda is my cousin.

  • @aliencat11
    @aliencat11 Pƙed 4 lety +233

    What a remarkable woman. I think her death was suspicious, but maybe just horribly misdiagnosed. Thank you for telling her story.

    • @helennaidas868
      @helennaidas868 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      M

    • @evelynzlon9492
      @evelynzlon9492 Pƙed rokem

      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.

    • @evelynzlon9492
      @evelynzlon9492 Pƙed rokem

      Also, the preferred targets of active economic conquest are high-status individuals, because there's much to be gained by doing so.

    • @lawbanger4yahlawbanger4yah33
      @lawbanger4yahlawbanger4yah33 Pƙed rokem

      Dirterica Christian Country my Ass.

    • @graceyjewels7148
      @graceyjewels7148 Pƙed rokem +3

      That's what I thought, poisoning?

  • @auzsatv5588
    @auzsatv5588 Pƙed 4 lety +373

    You couldn’t marry a black person but you sure could marry your cousin first cousin at that lls good ole souf smh

    • @ritamcbee
      @ritamcbee Pƙed 4 lety +15

      That’s what I was thinking. Just nasty!

    • @Bluelotusflower22
      @Bluelotusflower22 Pƙed 3 lety +11

      why was i thinking this exact thought, then paused the video TO FIND THIS COMMENT lmao

    • @ellenamontana1352
      @ellenamontana1352 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      You can still marry your first cousin.

    • @b1k2q34
      @b1k2q34 Pƙed 3 lety

      @@Bluelotusflower22 yeah, why?

    • @Bluelotusflower22
      @Bluelotusflower22 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      @@b1k2q34 i like to see if other people are thinking what im thinking lol

  • @brendaholliday6866
    @brendaholliday6866 Pƙed 4 lety +101

    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.

    • @pamelaoliver8442
      @pamelaoliver8442 Pƙed rokem

      Pity factor? You sound like a lost causer. The South lost, slavery was never ok, period. Get over it.

  • @simonejuneau2143
    @simonejuneau2143 Pƙed rokem +18

    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.

  • @ruthymorales7208
    @ruthymorales7208 Pƙed 4 lety +73

    Such a great story!! Glad that the law was on her side back then despite her color. What an interesting tale indeed.

  • @arlenebranch3664
    @arlenebranch3664 Pƙed 4 lety +213

    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.

    • @RonAllenTaylor
      @RonAllenTaylor Pƙed 4 lety +5

      Slavery is a big deal in the Muslim world

    • @janjISMYname
      @janjISMYname Pƙed 4 lety +3

      AGREED.

    • @intelligentthinker8085
      @intelligentthinker8085 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      @@RonAllenTaylor i guess that justifies slavery. Well I'm glad we solved that issue SMFH

    • @RonAllenTaylor
      @RonAllenTaylor Pƙed 3 lety

      Intelligent Thinker LOL that’s cute.

    • @julie1630
      @julie1630 Pƙed 3 lety +6

      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.

  • @oceanpacific886
    @oceanpacific886 Pƙed 4 lety +27

    My great great grandmother was a slave and inherited a vast fortune in1807...very similar story

  • @amymoseleysmith7494
    @amymoseleysmith7494 Pƙed 4 lety +185

    Thank you. This is my first time hearing about this interesting Lady.

    • @ForgottenLives
      @ForgottenLives  Pƙed 4 lety +2

      Thanks for watching!

    • @wandaashley4399
      @wandaashley4399 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      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.

    • @tim81strachan
      @tim81strachan Pƙed 4 lety +5

      You can watch her movie on CZcams called a house divided

    • @rufaiabukari162
      @rufaiabukari162 Pƙed 3 lety

      What !!! raping 12 years old shocking

    • @hummingnectarbird
      @hummingnectarbird Pƙed 3 lety +1

      Forgotten Lives There was a movie made by her starring Jennifer Beals.

  • @sandidavis820
    @sandidavis820 Pƙed 3 lety +26

    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.

  • @Melody-mu6nk
    @Melody-mu6nk Pƙed 4 lety +91

    I felt sorry for her mother 😔

  • @trojanette8345
    @trojanette8345 Pƙed 4 lety +284

    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).

    • @yamomma6479
      @yamomma6479 Pƙed 4 lety +17

      exactly not unusual AT ALL!

    • @adriyenn
      @adriyenn Pƙed 4 lety +56

      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

    • @Nyahkimmy
      @Nyahkimmy Pƙed 4 lety +35

      @@adriyenn not boring at all. Thanks for sharing your history with us.

    • @adriyenn
      @adriyenn Pƙed 4 lety +28

      @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.

    • @wandaashley4399
      @wandaashley4399 Pƙed 4 lety +8

      @@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.

  • @ariw9405
    @ariw9405 Pƙed 4 lety +113

    Privileged slave is an oxymoron

  • @Justshill
    @Justshill Pƙed 4 lety +101

    New husband poisoned her for the estate?

    • @MCC4RTHY1
      @MCC4RTHY1 Pƙed 3 lety +2

      I totally believe this. Shame.

  • @skepticalrebekah
    @skepticalrebekah Pƙed 4 lety +48

    4:26. “Couldn’t marry cause certain laws prohibited the marriage of ...”
    Me: Family?
    “Interracial couples.”
    Oh..

    • @Khalayi1
      @Khalayi1 Pƙed 3 lety

      So whatever happen with her relationship with her mother and her mother’s mother? Did Amanda’s mother have more children by Dixon?

  • @christophercensullo6892
    @christophercensullo6892 Pƙed 4 lety +713

    She was not a slave. She was an enslaved human being.

    • @lumijasminasmr3583
      @lumijasminasmr3583 Pƙed 4 lety +19

      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.

    • @615BlackBarbie
      @615BlackBarbie Pƙed 4 lety +4

      Thank you!!

    • @RosalindGash
      @RosalindGash Pƙed 4 lety +69

      @@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.

    • @susanyoung5447
      @susanyoung5447 Pƙed 4 lety +19

      @@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.

    • @JayJordanJuly
      @JayJordanJuly Pƙed 4 lety +18

      Rosalind Gash ; not even the 1960’s... many rapes were not filed or investigated up to the 1990’s. Scary & sad.

  • @pagemastrogiovanni9195
    @pagemastrogiovanni9195 Pƙed 3 lety +8

    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!

  • @johnallen2771
    @johnallen2771 Pƙed 4 lety +200

    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.

    • @angelaj8958
      @angelaj8958 Pƙed 4 lety +27

      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.

    • @noeminoemi1350
      @noeminoemi1350 Pƙed 4 lety +29

      @@angelaj8958 at least it was her family who received it and not her fathers relatives.

    • @mommimommi5014
      @mommimommi5014 Pƙed 4 lety +32

      @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.

    • @denise3422
      @denise3422 Pƙed 4 lety +6

      @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

    • @ladiimysteekd4445
      @ladiimysteekd4445 Pƙed 4 lety +12

      @@mommimommi5014 thank you. Amanda was Black.

  • @khamp96
    @khamp96 Pƙed 4 lety +398

    50 percent of the white population has black ancestors ain't that funny it might be more đŸ€Ł

    • @julieugo4407
      @julieugo4407 Pƙed 3 lety +26

      @maxx mabemwe good, i hope science definitely without doubt proves we are all the bloody same blood line. Cheers, your cousin 463x removed.....! 💗

    • @julieugo4407
      @julieugo4407 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      @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

    • @karyndewit193
      @karyndewit193 Pƙed 3 lety +10

      I don’t think it’s that high, but it wouldn’t matter if it was.

    • @khamp96
      @khamp96 Pƙed 3 lety +14

      @@karyndewit193 it is more than 50 percent

    • @janeiwasduncan8463
      @janeiwasduncan8463 Pƙed 3 lety +9

      @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. 🎈🎈

  • @Teresia12
    @Teresia12 Pƙed rokem +10

    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.

  • @joyphillips1821
    @joyphillips1821 Pƙed 4 lety +19

    This was a movie starring Jennifer Beals ( who is half black, half white). I think the name of the movie was "A House Divided".

  • @JF-xj1hz
    @JF-xj1hz Pƙed 4 lety +39

    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!?đŸ€”

  • @garywait3231
    @garywait3231 Pƙed 4 lety +14

    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!!🙂🙂🙂🙂

  • @KatsMeyow
    @KatsMeyow Pƙed 4 lety +18

    Thank you for your research and helping to preserve the stories of these women.

  • @liminalquartz
    @liminalquartz Pƙed 3 lety +44

    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!

  • @jacquetracy3194
    @jacquetracy3194 Pƙed rokem +2

    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.

  • @SHINESunshinee872
    @SHINESunshinee872 Pƙed 4 lety +23

    *Her* *middle* *name* was, *“America?”* *Beautiful,* very *unique!*

  • @iamashby6479
    @iamashby6479 Pƙed 3 lety +33

    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

  • @mileshigh1321
    @mileshigh1321 Pƙed 4 lety +40

    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!

    • @garywait3231
      @garywait3231 Pƙed 4 lety +3

      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 🙂😃🙂 !!

    • @ForgottenLives
      @ForgottenLives  Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Agreed, glad you enjoyed!

    • @msjujuz266
      @msjujuz266 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      She probably had something else wrong with her as things like that don't usually kill people.

    • @brendasullivan6453
      @brendasullivan6453 Pƙed rokem

      I'm wondering if she was poisoned.

  • @bobbiejothomas681
    @bobbiejothomas681 Pƙed rokem +4

    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.

  • @kaleahcollins4567
    @kaleahcollins4567 Pƙed 4 lety +85

    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

    • @tedkeedabooker8740
      @tedkeedabooker8740 Pƙed 3 lety +7

      They left that out... Her last owner taught the slave how to read and write

    • @shadowess1961
      @shadowess1961 Pƙed 3 lety +12

      And still she was raped. AND she was a child.

    • @kaleahcollins4567
      @kaleahcollins4567 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@shadowess1961 exactly they leave that out

  • @QueenBee-gx4rp
    @QueenBee-gx4rp Pƙed 4 lety +80

    Very interesting. How sad that she didn’t get to enjoy her husband and a calm, relaxing life.

    • @jenjen.rutherford8559
      @jenjen.rutherford8559 Pƙed 4 lety +13

      I'm guessing she was probably so damaged emotionally it would have been very hard for her to find contentment .

    • @katarinasvensson9801
      @katarinasvensson9801 Pƙed 4 lety +3

      @@jenjen.rutherford8559 those days they didn't though the way we do.

    • @cygnevara8400
      @cygnevara8400 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      you mean her cousin

    • @woodswal
      @woodswal Pƙed 4 lety +4

      @@cygnevara8400 She had a second husband named Nathan Toomer whom was also mixed.

    • @marthaalexander7362
      @marthaalexander7362 Pƙed rokem +1

      Sounds like her second husband was an opportunist.

  • @hippiechick2112
    @hippiechick2112 Pƙed rokem

    Doing these videos gives me ideas for stories and I am learning about people I never knew about. Thank you so much for posting!

  • @TinaFivesten
    @TinaFivesten Pƙed 4 lety +34

    Nice that this kind if story doesn't get censored.
    On a different note: I think the husband did it!

  • @nedrashereadywilliams9496
    @nedrashereadywilliams9496 Pƙed 3 lety +5

    So many stories like this that isn't told. Our history is so nonchalantly approached.

  • @craigfountaine3314
    @craigfountaine3314 Pƙed 4 lety +3

    Thank you! I enjoyed it completely. Very interesting, very informative, very well written!!!!! Loved it

  • @penelope8557
    @penelope8557 Pƙed 4 lety +4

    Well done! Thank you for posting this.

  • @julielivinlife2447
    @julielivinlife2447 Pƙed 4 lety +115

    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.💙

    • @melsterifficmama1808
      @melsterifficmama1808 Pƙed 4 lety +6

      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.

    • @blasianluvschocolate397
      @blasianluvschocolate397 Pƙed 4 lety +36

      @@dylvasey correction sir....he raped a 12 year old and got her pregnant..not banged..

    • @barbarat5729
      @barbarat5729 Pƙed 4 lety +30

      Melsteriffic Mama That’s a ridiculous argument. He was a rapist, plain and simple.

    • @benwilson6145
      @benwilson6145 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      @@dylvasey Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin in 1958.

    • @julielivinlife2447
      @julielivinlife2447 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      @Zulu Immortal Dont worry Im sure they will get theirs.

  • @mildredpierce4506
    @mildredpierce4506 Pƙed 3 lety +4

    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.

  • @OWOT-re5jf
    @OWOT-re5jf Pƙed 4 lety +3

    Looking forward to listening to this on my morning walk! You are awesome!

  • @loisreese2692
    @loisreese2692 Pƙed 2 lety +1

    @Forgotten Lives This needs far more thumbs up than I possess. Excellent video. Thanks and ❀ from Pennsylvania.

  • @angelbabysqueaky3985
    @angelbabysqueaky3985 Pƙed rokem +1

    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.

  • @lesliesmith5797
    @lesliesmith5797 Pƙed 4 lety +9

    A very interesting and informative video. I have never heard of Amanda. Shame she passed away at such a young age. Thank you 😊

  • @JustEye_La
    @JustEye_La Pƙed 3 lety +3

    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.

  • @rosahinton8686
    @rosahinton8686 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

  • @belovedinthebuilding
    @belovedinthebuilding Pƙed rokem

    I love this story! Thank you for sharing you documentaries they are all intriguing!

  • @ELKE-
    @ELKE- Pƙed 4 lety +7

    Thank you FLives! Welcome back! Will enjoy that before bed time. I shall will love it as always! Have good night

    • @nancyM1313
      @nancyM1313 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      Sweet Dreams Elke BđŸ’ŸđŸ˜‡đŸ™đŸ’€đŸ’€

    • @nancyM1313
      @nancyM1313 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      @9:09 pm Tuesday evening.
      Have a nice Wednesday/đŸȘhumpDAYđŸ«đŸ’š
      Riley sends you a special hello😘💋

    • @ELKE-
      @ELKE- Pƙed 4 lety +2

      @@nancyM1313 Nancy! 3:20am here. Have nice hump day too!đŸ«đŸȘ Special hello back to Riley!🐈 No work tomorrow!

  • @gwene.4726
    @gwene.4726 Pƙed 3 lety +9

    The entire situation is disturbing, disgusting and inhumane.

  • @aubreyshelton6331
    @aubreyshelton6331 Pƙed 3 lety

    Im so glad people finally got w the program and started watching your videos!!! LOOK AT THOSE VIEWS!!!! congrats

  • @dondrawoods4253
    @dondrawoods4253 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Enjoy ur forgotten & unknown stories keep up the good work very informative!!!

  • @CalienteDesign
    @CalienteDesign Pƙed 3 lety +41

    Typical male doc diagnoses her with "it's all in your head" and she dies 2 days later. Her symptoms almost sound like poisoning.

  • @MeredithForReal
    @MeredithForReal Pƙed 4 lety +3

    That was a GREAT video! I loved how honestly you presented the information. Well done!

  • @jeraldjohnson8400
    @jeraldjohnson8400 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    It's so nice to hear about true American history never taught in school, thank you

  • @cararevelscrittenton806
    @cararevelscrittenton806 Pƙed rokem +1

    Thank you so much for sharing this important story. I wish they would teach this in schools.

  • @thisblackgirlslife
    @thisblackgirlslife Pƙed 4 lety +6

    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

  • @virginagobetz4756
    @virginagobetz4756 Pƙed 4 lety +6

    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.

  • @kathymiller549
    @kathymiller549 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    Fascinating you hold my attention the whole way through never taking my eyes off the screen listening to you tell the history

  • @MichelleFaithLove
    @MichelleFaithLove Pƙed 4 lety +2

    Very Interesting Story of the late 1800's. I'm sad she died so young. I can not imagine her life, happiness, struggles and great composure as a beautiful Lady of Georgia. Thank you.

  • @deborahmoss5141
    @deborahmoss5141 Pƙed 4 lety +4

    Enjoyed learning about this lady. Thanks for information

  • @jairenesereno4519
    @jairenesereno4519 Pƙed 4 lety +220

    Her dad really loved her. Too bad he treated the mother so badly. Strange.

    • @jenniferceballos3665
      @jenniferceballos3665 Pƙed 4 lety +42

      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

    • @stephaniesherrill8669
      @stephaniesherrill8669 Pƙed 4 lety +43

      A Financial payoff isnt love... its hush money. At best, he felt guilt . I doubt people like that are capable of love

    • @anastasiaerbe1826
      @anastasiaerbe1826 Pƙed 4 lety +14

      It is strange. I'm surprised about him claiming his daughter after what he did. But good that he did!

    • @anastasiaerbe1826
      @anastasiaerbe1826 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      @@stephaniesherrill8669 excellent point!

    • @olubunmiabikefadipe8602
      @olubunmiabikefadipe8602 Pƙed 3 lety +23

      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?

  • @edwinhernandez6976
    @edwinhernandez6976 Pƙed 3 lety

    I thank you for this story! I would like to
    hear more historical
    stories about slaves who lived a more better
    life than others. Amazing story!

  • @monte4955
    @monte4955 Pƙed 4 lety +1

    Thanks FL. Always enjoy your narrations. 👍

  • @missmsmrs.7309
    @missmsmrs.7309 Pƙed 4 lety +19

    Watching the Movie about Amanda truly opened my eyes to the sad, sinister times of Slavery.

  • @hannad2279
    @hannad2279 Pƙed 4 lety +21

    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.

  • @carolnorman8636
    @carolnorman8636 Pƙed 3 lety

    Thank you..for this important history lesson...look forward for the next one.

  • @texas1949
    @texas1949 Pƙed 4 lety +1

    Such a fascinating story! Thanks for sharing. Great work!

  • @faebrowne2537
    @faebrowne2537 Pƙed 4 lety +30

    She should have made sure she had a will after the struggle she had. Then left it all to her mother.

  • @alexandermarquis6197
    @alexandermarquis6197 Pƙed 4 lety +5

    I love her story, I know someone else who lived a similar life, in many , many ways.

  • @bettyjames4155
    @bettyjames4155 Pƙed 4 lety +2

    Thank you for another fascinating story! Good job narrating for BC also.

  • @valreethomas2762
    @valreethomas2762 Pƙed 5 měsĂ­ci

    Thank you for producing this film.

  • @tahneejenkins9444
    @tahneejenkins9444 Pƙed 4 lety +3

    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.

    • @tedkeedabooker8740
      @tedkeedabooker8740 Pƙed 3 lety

      Oh they went to court... She won... It's been going on for years... They felt that no half colored girl should receive anything

  • @Redhead77
    @Redhead77 Pƙed 3 lety +9

    I like how she named her firstborn after her mom ❀

    • @knowledgeberakah1728
      @knowledgeberakah1728 Pƙed 2 lety

      She named her first born after her uncles.her son green dickson was named after my 4thgreat grandpa

  • @familytreenutshistorygenealogy

    Wow, very well made video. We have been trying to preserve history too. Thanks for the inspiration!

  • @Barb85044
    @Barb85044 Pƙed rokem +1

    Wonderful remembrance. Thank you for sharing.

  • @imranlee1955
    @imranlee1955 Pƙed 4 lety +3

    my new favourite you tube channel ! 😍💯 Meanwhile, what a dramatic life she had. I’m utterly disgusted with the racism and discrimination backthen

  • @zero_bs_tolerance8646
    @zero_bs_tolerance8646 Pƙed 4 lety +13

    I'm glad she got her money.
    Thanks for the upload.

  • @maqangazamanyezile218
    @maqangazamanyezile218 Pƙed rokem +2

    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.

  • @relaxsleeprechargerepeat
    @relaxsleeprechargerepeat Pƙed 4 lety +2

    Great story FL 👏👏👏 Narrated to perfection 👌

  • @priscillawatson7049
    @priscillawatson7049 Pƙed 4 lety +6

    so good that she managed to have a good - albeit - short life. I hope her children had wider choices, and were happy!

  • @lorettawinckowski6734
    @lorettawinckowski6734 Pƙed 4 lety +3

    Thank you for this wonderful story. We never know what family history is.

  • @judithblackwell3455
    @judithblackwell3455 Pƙed 3 lety

    Very, very interesting! Thank you. I truly enjoyed it.