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Boyd, Natasha.
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Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, 1723-1793 -- Fiction.
Indigo -- South Carolina -- Fiction.
Slaves -- Education -- South Carolina -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- Fiction.
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Boyd, Natasha.
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, 1723-1793 -- Fiction.
Indigo -- South Carolina -- Fiction.
Slaves -- Education -- South Carolina -- Fiction.
South Carolina -- Fiction.
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The indigo girl : a novel / Natasha Boyd.
by
Boyd, Natasha.
Blackstone Publishing, c2017.
Call #:
FICTION
BOY
Subjects
Pinckney
,
Eliza
Lucas
,
1723-1793
--
Fiction
.
Indigo
--
South Carolina
--
Fiction
.
Slaves
--
Education
--
South Carolina
--
Fiction
.
South Carolina
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781455137114 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"The story ... was based on true events and historical documents"--P. 335, A note from the author.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and discussion questions.
Summary:
"The year is 1739.
Eliza
Lucas
is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida, just a short way down the coast, are rising, and slaves are starting to become restless. Her mother wants nothing more than for their South Carolina endeavor to fail so they can go back to England. Soon her family is in danger of losing everything. Upon hearing how much the French pay for indigo dye,
Eliza
believes it's the key to their salvation. But everyone tells her it's impossible, and no one will share the secret to making it. Thwarted at nearly every turn, even by her own family,
Eliza
finds that her only allies are an aging horticulturalist, an older and married gentleman lawyer, and a slave with whom she strikes a dangerous deal: teach her the intricate thousand-year-old secret process of making indigo dye and in return
--
against the laws of the day
--
she will teach the slaves to read."--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographical
fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
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2
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