Facts on 12 June
1886 - Ex-slave Amanda Eubanks left millions in will

IN this day in 1886, the Georgia State Supreme Court sustained the will of the late David Dickson, thus making Amanda Eubanks, the daughter of a slave and her owner, one of the wealthiest black women in nineteenth-century America. Dickson, a former slaveholder, willed more than half a million dollars to Eubanks.

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