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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Glover, Lorri, 1967- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
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Table des matières:
  • 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.