Eliza Lucas Pinckney Biography
December 28, 1722?
West Indies
May 26, 1793
Plantation manager, indigo cultivator
" . . . I was very early fond of the vegetable world. . . . "
Eliza Lucas Pinckney.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney was a South Carolina plantation manager who is known today for her pioneering work in the cultivation of indigo (a plant used to make blue dye). As a result of Pinckney's successful experiments—which she began at the age of seventeen—the Carolina colony sustained a flourishing indigo industry for nearly three decades. During her lifetime Pinckney kept a detailed journal, recording the progress of her experiments. She also maintained extensive correspondence with friends and family members. Her letters, one of the largest surviving collections of letters by a colonial woman, provide valuable information about Carolina plantation life during the eighteenth...
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