Indigo was once so vital to the state people called it “blue gold.” As interest in the dye reignites, historic sites are shining a light on its past
came along that the crop took off. In the 1730s, Eliza’s father, a lieutenant governor stationed in Antigua, put her in charge of the family’s three plantations outside of Charleston. Skilled in botany, she had her father ship her some indigo seeds.
Indigo soon became South Carolina’s second best cash crop. “Along with rice, it made South Carolina the wealthiest of the 13 colonies,” Rodrigues says. At one point in the 1700s, more than a million pounds of it a year were harvested, processed, and packed into cakes to be shipped back to Britain, a $40 million value today.
An archival print shows indigo processing in South Carolina in the 18th century. The work was done almost entirely by enslaved African or Indigenous people.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. , a circa-1675 Charleston-area plantation where rice and indigo once thrived. “No one else would do it; conditions were horrible.”After American independence in 1776, Britain took its indigo business to
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