Eliza Lucas Pinckney
1722-1793
American amateur horticulturist who initiated colonial indigo cultivation. Pinckney spent her childhood in Antigua. Her father, a British army officer, moved the family ...
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Pinckney, Eliza Lucas
December 28, 1722?
West Indies
May 26, 1793
Plantation manager, indigo cultivator
" . . . I was very early fond of the vegetable world. . . . "
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Pinckney, Eliza Lucas
Born December 28, 1723 (Antigua, West Indies)
Died May 26, 1793 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Agricultural innovator
Eliza Lucas Pinckney was a teenager when she was assigned to m...
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Chiefly remembered as the young plantation mistress who pioneered the cultivation of indigo in colonial South Carolina, Eliza Lucas Pinckney was also the author of a remarkable collection of letters t...
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas
Eliza Lucas Pinckney