Okay before I start I just want to apologize for just now commenting back to your comment, and I did comment back but this is my new post:)
Eliza Lucas Pickney had a TON of information. The question I'm supposed to answer is: How did this selection on ELP help you understand SC History? Did it? My answer is yes, it did. She did so much, and she was a special person. Eliza's father left her in charge of his 3 plantations, and she jumped all over the challenge. Her parents tried to get her to marry, but she said her life was already too busy.
Indigo became the second biggest cash crop exported to Europe, and Eliza Lucas Pickney was the reason for that. If she hadn't come up with the process of making the dye, it would've taken someone else longer to perfect it, and maybe it wouldn't have caught on. She was the type of woman who was worth recognizing (to the people of that time).
Eliza and her story definitely helped me understand SC History better especially because of the way she treated her slaves, and how her family was so spread out. Her father was in the West Indies, she was in SC with her mother and sister and her brothers were attending boarding school in England. She treated her slaves well, so they loc=ved and respected her. Some masters did that and others didn't. Back to her family. I guess that colonists had this happen sometimes. Maybe they had to work abroad or finish school back in England while parents or siblings managed platations in the New World.
Again sorry about responding to the comment so late I hope you read it still but you dont have to reply:) Thanks! :)
