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About Adelicia Acklen
Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham was an American planter and slave trader. She became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee and a plantation owner in her own right after the 1846 death of her first husband, Isaac Franklin. As a successful slave trader, she had used his wealth to purchase numerous plantations, lands, and slaves in Tennessee and Louisiana.
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- plantation owner
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 15, 1817
- Died
- May 4, 1887