Eliza Lucas Pinckney : an independent woman in the age of revolution /

The enthralling story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner during the Revolutionary era. Pinckney (1722-1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most res...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Glover, Lorri, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, > 1722-1793.
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, > 1722-1793
1600-1799
Women plantation owners > South Carolina > Biography.
Indigo industry > South Carolina > History > 18th century.
Femmes propriétaires de plantations > Caroline du Sud > Biographies.
Indigo > Industrie > Caroline du Sud > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
Women plantation owners
Indigo industry
South Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Caroline du Sud > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
South Carolina
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Born to privilege
  • Trouble back home
  • "In a strange country"
  • Putting down roots
  • A brilliant scheme
  • "I have changed my condition in life"
  • Faith and self-government
  • Becoming an American in London
  • "A home after her own heart"
  • "Oppressed with bitter Anguish"
  • Cultivating a legacy
  • A gathering storm
  • The hastening war
  • "Shatter'd and ruin'd"
  • Happy under her own vine and fig tree
  • One last journey
  • Epilogue.

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