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    Eliza Pinckney (née Elizabeth Lucas; December 28, 1722 – May 27, 1793) transformed agriculture in colonial South Carolina, where she developed indigo as one of its most important cash crops. Its cultivation and processing as dye produced one-third the total value of the colony's exports before the Revolutionary War .

  4. Eliza Lucas Pinckney. Historians often credit Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) with the development of the successful indigo industry in the mid-1700s in South Carolina. Her unique situation as the manager of her father’s lands helped carve her name into the history of South Carolina.

  5. South Carolina plantation owner, botanist, and Revolutionary War patriot who introduced commercial-grade indigo as a North American crop. Name variations: Elizabeth or Eliza Lucas. Pronunciation: Pink-knee.

  6. Sep 21, 2019 · Eliza Lucas Pinckney, probably the first important agriculturalist of the United States, realized that the growing textile industry was creating world markets for new dyes. Starting in 1739, she began cultivating and creating improved strains of the indigo plant, which was being used to dye textiles in the burgeoning manufacturing mills in England.

  7. May 21, 2018 · American business pioneer Eliza Pinckney (1722–1793) single-handedly launched the indigo industry in pre-Revolutionary era South Carolina. Determined to make the highly prized tropical crop flourish in the Carolina soil, Pinckney carried out several experimental plantings in the early 1740s.

  8. Jun 20, 2016 · Planter, matriarch. Born on December 28, ca. 1722, in the West Indies, probably Antigua, Eliza was the oldest of four children of George Lucas and Anne Milldrum. Her father was a sugar baron of fluctuating fortune who later served that island in its military forces and as lieutenant governor.

  9. Agricultural innovator. Eliza Lucas Pinckney was a teenager when she was assigned to manage three large plantations for her family. She was still a young woman when her horticultural (plant-growing) experiments succeeded in the cultivation of the first indigo plants in British North America.

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