Eliza Lucas
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Eliza Lucas was a remarkable woman born in England on December 28, 1722. She was an agricultural innovator and plantation manager who was instrumental in building the economy of colonial South Carolina. She achieved this by introducing the cash crop of indigo, which was processed into dye and became a major export before the Revolutionary War.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day December 28, 1722
Birth Place England
Age 297 YEARS OLD
Died On Dec 28, 1793 (age 71)
Birth Sign Capricorn

💰 Net worth: $85 Million (2024)

About

Agricultural innovator and plantation manager who built colonial South Carolina's economy on the cash crop of Indigo, which, in its processed form (as dye), was a major pre-Revolutionary War export.

Before Fame

At the age of sixteen, she became the primary manager of Wappoo Plantation, one of her family's South Carolina landholdings.

Trivia

Her son, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, signed the United States Constitution and ran as the 1800 vice-presidential candidate for the Federalist Party.

Family Life

She grew up on a sugar plantation in the British West Indies. She later married South Carolina Chief Justice Charles Pinckney.

Associated With

She and James Hammond -- a pre-Civil War South Carolina governor -- were both South Carolina plantation owners and slaveholders.

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