Eliza Lucas
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 230 years ago |
Date of birth | December 28,1722 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Antigua |
Antigua And Barbuda | |
Date of died | May 26,1793 |
Died | Philadelphia |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Spouse | Charles Pinckney |
Children | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney |
Thomas Pinckney | |
Harriott Pinckney | |
George Lucas Pinckney | |
Thomas Lucas | |
Parents | George Lucas |
Ann Lucas | |
Job | Writer |
Businessperson | |
Books | The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739–1762 |
Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times - Scholar's Choice Edition | |
Grandchildren | Thomas Pinckney, Jr |
Rebecca Motte Pinckney | |
Buried | St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 651410 |
Eliza Lucas Life story
Elizabeth "Eliza" Lucas 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.