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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
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.