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Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Eliza Lucas Pinckney was a South Carolina planter who, while managing her father's plantations as a young woman, developed indigo as a commercial crop in the 1740s. Indigo, grown by enslaved workers, became one of the colony's chief exports and greatly enriched the Lowcountry planter elite. Her sons Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney became leading figures of the early United States.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Eliza Lucas Pinckney. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/eliza-lucas-pinckney
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