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Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney

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American planter and agriculturalist (1722-1799)

United StatesLived 1722 to 1793 · aged 71
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Elizabeth "Eliza" Pinckney was an American farmer. Pinckney transformed agriculture in colonial South Carolina, where she developed indigo as one of its most important cash crops. Its cultivation and processing as dye produced one-third the total value of the colony's exports before the Revolutionary War.

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Elizabeth "Eliza" Pinckney was an American farmer. Pinckney transformed agriculture in colonial South Carolina, where she developed indigo as one of its most important cash crops. Its cultivation and processing as dye produced one-third the total value of the colony's exports before the Revolutionary War. The manager of three plantations, Pinckney had a major influence on the colonial economy.

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Lived 1722 to 1793 · aged 71
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