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Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution

byLorri Glover

Lorri Glover reconstructs the life of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, the Antigua-born planter whose experiments with indigo helped transform colonial South Carolina's economy. Using Pinckney's unusually rich letters, recipes, spiritual reflections, and business records, Glover follows her work as plantation manager, wife, mother, political observer, and wealthy landowner. The biography recognizes her intelligence and independence while confronting the enslaved labor that sustained her accomplishments. Pinckney's writings provide a rare woman's perspective on commerce, family power, and revolution in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2020-08-25

Format

Hardcover

Pages

344

ISBN

9780300236118