THE RICHEST NEGRO WOMAN
The Supreme Court of Georgia sustained the will of the late David Dickson This rnakea Amanda Eubanka the richest negrees ia Axnerioa, with a fortune of hilf a million. Dickaon died a bachelor. His white relations were anxious for his properly. They were disgusted as well as disappointed when they discovered that he left a will, by which seven eights of hia possessions were left to a colored woman, with whom he had lived for a time, and her daughter Amanda. A fight was made on the -will, the principal point made being that it was opposed j to pablio polioy to permit a whi'e man ,to_ ..dUpQ.ge.nf. ,i)ia. .property to his colored illegitimate children." ' Th¥Saprrme~Croairrj rules shortly that the negroes have the aarao civil rights as white people, and that the will must stand.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1647, 27 August 1887, Page 2
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139THE RICHEST NEGRO WOMAN Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1647, 27 August 1887, Page 2
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