Eliza Lucas Pinckney

Author : Margaret F. Pickett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476665863

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney by Margaret F. Pickett Pdf

In 1739, Major George Lucas moved from Antigua to Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. Soon after their arrival, England declared war on Spain and he was recalled to Antigua to join his regiment. His wife in poor health, he left his daughter Eliza, 17, in charge of his three plantations. Following his instructions, she began experimenting with plants at the family estate on Wappoo Creek. She succeeded in growing indigo and producing a rich, blue dye from the leaves, thus bringing a profitable new cash crop to Carolina planters. While her accomplishments were rare for a young lady of the 18th century, they were not outside the scope of what was expected of a woman at that time. This biography, drawn from her surviving letters and other sources, chronicles Eliza Pinckney's life and explores the 18th century world she inhabited.

Author : Lorri Glover
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300236118

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney by Lorri Glover Pdf

The enthralling story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner during the Revolutionary era Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most respected women in a world dominated by men. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, she spent her youth in England before settling in the American South and enriching herself through the successful management of plantations dependent on enslaved laborers. Tracing her extraordinary journey and drawing on the vast written records she left behind--including family and business letters, spiritual musings, elaborate recipes, macabre medical treatments, and astute observations about her world and herself--this engaging biography offers a rare woman's first-person perspective into the tumultuous years leading up to and through the Revolutionary War and unsettles many common assumptions regarding the place and power of women in the eighteenth century.

Author : Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000329065

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The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762 by Eliza Lucas Pinckney Pdf

Author : Harriott Horry Ravenel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010071520

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Eliza Pinckney by Harriott Horry Ravenel Pdf

Eliza Lucas was the daughter of George Lucas, Governor of Antigua at one time. She married Charles Pinckney in 1744 and was influential in the development of indigo as a staple crop in South Carolina.

Author : Pamela Bauer Mueller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0980916313

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Water to My Soul by Pamela Bauer Mueller Pdf

While managing three plantations, sixteen-year-old Eliza Lucas changes agriculture in colonial South Carolina when she develops indigo as an important cash crop.

Author : Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641471438

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The letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney by Eliza Lucas Pinckney Pdf

Author : Marjorie Julian Spruill,Valinda W. Littlefield,Joan Marie Johnson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820343815

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South Carolina Women by Marjorie Julian Spruill,Valinda W. Littlefield,Joan Marie Johnson Pdf

Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world wars, and dramatic changes in the role of women. Some striking revelations emerge from these biographical portraits—in particular, the breadth of interracial cooperation between women in the decades preceding the civil rights movement and ways that women carved out diverse career opportunities, sometimes by breaking down formidable occupational barriers. Some women in the volume proceeded cautiously, working within the norms of their day to promote reform even as traditional ideas about race and gender held powerful sway. Others spoke out more directly and forcefully and demanded change. Most of the women featured in these essays were leaders within their respective communities and the state. Many of them, such as Wil Lou Gray, Hilla Sheriff, and Ruby Forsythe, dedicated themselves to improving the quality of education and health care for South Carolinians. Septima Clark, Alice Spearman Wright, Modjeska Simkins, and many others sought to improve conditions and obtain social justice for African Americans. Others, including Victoria Eslinger and Tootsie Holland, were devoted to the cause of women’s rights. Louise Smith, Mary Elizabeth Massey, and Mary Blackwell Butler entered traditionally male-dominated fields, while Polly Woodham and Mary Jane Manigault created their own small businesses. A few, including Mary Gordon Ellis, Dolly Hamby, and Harriet Keyserling exercised political influence. Familiar figures like Jean Toal, current chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, are included, but readers also learn about lesser-known women such as Julia and Alice Delk, sisters employed in the Charleston Naval Yard during World War II.

Author : Sam S. Baskett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1026955298

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney: portrait of an eighteenth century American by Sam S. Baskett Pdf

Author : Susan Lee,John Lee
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0516046586

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Eliza Pinckney by Susan Lee,John Lee Pdf

A biography of the industrious young woman who helped introduce the cultivation of the indigo plant in South Carolina.

Author : Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Mothers and daughters
ISBN : OCLC:780102311

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney Papers by Eliza Lucas Pinckney Pdf

Three letters, 8 Apr. 1773 - 6 July 1783, of family and local news, and one inscribed volume, published 1743.

Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466806115

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First Generations by Carol Berkin Pdf

Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. This remarkable work is a gripping portrait that gives early-American women their proper place in history.

Author : Margaret F. Pickett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476625287

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney by Margaret F. Pickett Pdf

In 1739, Major George Lucas moved from Antigua to Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. Soon after their arrival, England declared war on Spain and he was recalled to Antigua to join his regiment. His wife in poor health, he left his daughter Eliza, 17, in charge of his three plantations. Following his instructions, she began experimenting with plants at the family estate on Wappoo Creek. She succeeded in growing indigo and producing a rich, blue dye from the leaves, thus bringing a profitable new cash crop to Carolina planters. While her accomplishments were rare for a young lady of the 18th century, they were not outside the scope of what was expected of a woman at that time. This biography, drawn from her surviving letters and other sources, chronicles Eliza Pinckney’s life and explores the 18th century world she inhabited.

Author : Gerda Lerner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780195072587

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The Female Experience by Gerda Lerner Pdf

This anthology of female experience in America, draws on the letters, diaries, speeches, and biographies of women from Colonial days to the early days of the women's movement. There are chapters on childhood, marriage, motherhood, single life, housewifery, old age and death.

Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838303

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An Anxious Pursuit by Joyce E. Chaplin Pdf

In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina, Georgia, and British East Florida perceived themselves as a modern, improving people. She reads developments in agricultural practice as indices of planters' desire for progress, and she demonstrates the central role played by slavery in their pursuit of modern life. By linking behavior and ideas, Chaplin has produced a work of cultural history that unites intellectual, social, and economic history. Using public records as well as planters' and farmers' private papers, Chaplin examines innovations in rice, indigo, and cotton cultivation as a window through which to see planters' pursuit of a modern future. She demonstrates that planters actively sought to improve their society and economy even as they suffered a pervasive anxiety about the corrupting impact of progress and commerce. The basis for their accomplishments and the root of their anxieties, according the Chaplin, were the same: race-based chattel slavery. Slaves provied the labor necessary to attain planters' vision of the modern, but the institution ultimately limited the Lower South's ability to compete in the contemporary world. Indeed, whites continued to wonder whether their innovations, some of them defied by slaves, truly improved the region. Chaplin argues that these apprehensions prefigured the antimodern stance of the antebellum period, but she contends that they were as much a reflection of the doubt inherent in theories of progress as an outright rejection of those ideas.

Author : Andrea Feeser,Maureen Daly Goggin,Beth Fowkes Tobin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1409429156

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The Materiality of Color by Andrea Feeser,Maureen Daly Goggin,Beth Fowkes Tobin Pdf

The purpose of this essay collection is to recover color's complex and sometimes morally troubling past. By emphasising color's materiality, and how it was produced, exchanged and used, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts.