| Description |
1 online resource (x, 327 pages) : illustrations, map |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 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 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. -- Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair in the Department of History at Saint Louis University. She has written extensively about early America, including Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries. Glover lives in St. Louis, MO |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed May 20, 2021) |
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Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, 1722-1793
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Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, 1722-1793 fast |
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Women plantation owners -- South Carolina -- Biography
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Indigo industry -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
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Women plantation owners
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Indigo industry
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South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125555
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South Carolina
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300255942 |
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0300255942 |
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