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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 .
Born in Antigua, Eliza Lucas was the eldest daughter of George Lucas, lieutenant governor of the island. She was raised on a Caribbean plantation. At a young age she was skilled in botany—a life passion of hers.
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Apr 19, 2024 · Elizabeth Pinckney (born c. Dec. 28, 1722, Antigua—died May 26, 1793, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) was a British-American plantation manager known for the first successful cultivation of indigo in the United States, an accomplishment that subsequently helped to sustain the Carolina economy for 30 years.
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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.
Jun 20, 2016 · The Pinckneys settled into his Belmont plantation near Charleston on the Cooper River. During the next five years Eliza had four children, including the future soldier, diplomat, and Federalist Party leader Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and the future governor, diplomat, and congressman Thomas Pinckney.
views 2,090,848 updated. Pinckney, Eliza Lucas (1722–1793) 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.
Apr 15, 2016 · Hampton Plantation was home to two notable South Carolinians: the pioneering indigo planter Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the poet laureate Archibald Rutledge. The impressive architectural display of Hampton’s mansion was financed with profits created by the intensive cultivation of rice, the lowcountry’s basis of wealth.
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