The indigo girl

By Natasha Boyd

Subjects: Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, 1723-1793 -- Fiction, South carolina, fiction, Fiction, general, South Carolina -- Fiction, Slaves, fiction, Education, Fiction, Indigo, Slaves, Indigo -- South Carolina -- Fiction, Slaves -- Education -- South Carolina -- Fiction

Description: The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who ran her father's plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina in the 1700s and struck a bargain with the plantation's slaves--teach her how to make indigo and she would teach them to read.