About Eliza Lucas
Elizabeth "Eliza" Pinckney was an American farmer. Pinckney 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. The manager of three plantations, Pinckney had a major influence on the colonial economy.
Notable works:
Women Of Colonial And Revolutionary Times
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