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

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

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

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

by Lorri Glover

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Overview

The enthralling story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner during the Revolutionary era

Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722–1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most respected women in a world dominated by men. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, she spent her youth in England before settling in the American South and enriching herself through the successful management of plantations dependent on enslaved laborers. Tracing her extraordinary journey and drawing on the vast written records she left behind—including family and business letters, spiritual musings, elaborate recipes, macabre medical treatments, and astute observations about her world and herself—this engaging biography offers a rare woman’s first-person perspective into the tumultuous years leading up to and through the Revolutionary War and unsettles many common assumptions regarding the place and power of women in the eighteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780300255942
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 08/25/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 344
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair in the Department of History at Saint Louis University. She has written extensively about early America, including Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries. Glover lives in St. Louis, MO.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Part 1 Antiguan Beginnings

1 Born to Privilege 9

2 Trouble Back Home 21

Part 2 Home to Carolina

3 "In a strange country" 33

4 Putting Down Roots 43

5 A Brilliant Scheme 57

Part 3 Romance and Resolutions

6 "I have changed my condition in life" 71

7 Faith and Self-Government 89

Part 4 Provincial in the Metropole

8 Becoming an American in London 109

9 "A home after her own heart" 123

Part 5 A Widow Patriarch

10 "Oppressed with bitter Anguish" 141

11 Cultivating a Legacy 155

Part 6 Revolution and War

12 A Gathering Storm 175

13 The Hastening War 185

14 "Shatter'd and ruin'd" 192

Part 7 Peace at Last

15 Happy under Her Own Vine and Fig Tree 211

16 One Last Journey 228

Epilogue 243

Notes 249

Index 313

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