Monday, October 25, 2010
Eliza Lucas Pickney =~]
Eliza Lucas Pickney helped me better understand SC history because it told me about everyday life in the 1700s. It also helped me learn about how much responsibility the men had while they owned a plantaion. In the reading, it talked about how people used to grow indigo and how it was used to be made into a blue die. The reading also stated how hard it was to grow the 1st successful crop of indigo and how challengeing it was to make it into a die. This helped me understand about some of the hardships Eliza Lucuas Pickney faced and all of the other farmers in the mid~1700s. After Eliza perfected growing indigo it became a cash crop in only a matter of years, which was very fast for the time period!
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I enjoyed reading about Eliza Lucas Pickney because she was a great example of a female leader in a male dominated economy. During the 1700's, Charleston was one of the largest and most successful southern cities in the British colonies in America. Indigo did become a huge part of the South Carolina economy when it became a successful cash crop, which was largely Eliza's doing. But what other influences did this crop have on plantations? I mean, the reading talked about processing the indigo into die was a challenging process, but what does that mean? I think this shows how prominent slave labor was in Charleston during the mid 1700's. Many people look back at that time in U.S history and frown upon slave labor, but do you think that Eliza would have been able to use her amazing skills and knowledge about indigo to make it into a cash crop? Im not sure she could have done it without free labor. During this time South Carolina was also going through a change from a society with slaves to a slave society, where African Americans were being even more disenfranchised. Do you think that maybe she stood up for women's rights to vote? Im not sure if she spoke publicly about women's rights but she was definitely a living example that women could manage business and make money just as well, if not better, than men.
ReplyDeletesavannah! hope you have a great weekend! looking forward to hearing form you again soon!
ReplyDeletesavannah! i had a great time blogging with you about South Carolina women this semester. i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did. i hope you learned a lot from this assignment because i sure have! im glad we both had the chance to learn so much about prominent from South Carolina. i hope you are having a great semester! im sure you are! this is our last week of class here at clemson so things are getting pretty stressful. we are finishing up all our assignments for classes and then we have finals next week. but, im sure you haven't procrastinated as bad as me, and gotten all your work done early. hope you have a great christmas break!
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