Record #:

10745

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

Indigo was the second highest grossing crop in the colonial Carolinas. Found in India, this crop was transported to the colonies by the English in the mid-18th-century. The plant prospered after Eliza Lucas, the daughter of wealthy Antiguan plantation owner, planted the crop in Charleston, South Carolina and then Wilmington, North Carolina. The high demand for Indigo in Europe was such that the product was shipped with cotton and rice en masse every year and garnered vast wealth for the local elite planters.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 34 Issue 15, Jan 1967, p11,13, il

Subject(s):

Indigo--North Carolina