USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -(5) Indigo was not produced commercially in Carolina during the early eighteenth century, but in 1739 Eliza Lucas experimentally planted some indigo seed from Antigua. After a series of failures, she produced a successful crop in 1744.

Detailed explanation-2: -Your story begins sometime in the late 1700s on a South Carolina plantation where indigo and rice are the main cash crops. You are either a grain of rice or an indigo plant being grown on one of these plantations where African slaves labor in the fields owned by wealthy southern families.

Detailed explanation-3: -Elizabeth “Eliza” Lucas Pinckney (December 28, 1722 – May 27, 1793) 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The History of Indigo "It was used literally as a currency. They were trading one length of cloth, in exchange for one human body.” Enslaved Africans carried the knowledge of indigo cultivation to the United States, and in the 1700s, the profits from indigo outpaced those of sugar and cotton.

Detailed explanation-5: -Historians often credit Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) with the development of the successful indigo industry in the mid-1700s in South Carolina.