ELIZA LUCAS PINCKNEY
1722–1793
In the 18th century, agriculturalist Eliza Lucas Pinckney became the first person in colonial America to successfully grow the tropical cash crop indigo. She went on to process it into a high-quality blue dye at a time when the world’s textile industry was burgeoning. Exports of the dye brought prosperity to South Carolina.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney was born in Antigua in the West Indies, where her father was a British Army officer. She developed an interest in botany when her parents sent her to school in England. In 1738, 16-year-old Pinckney moved with her family to South Carolina, ...
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