Format:
Online-Ressource (161 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780820338170
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9780820346564
Content:
Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing textiles, paper, and other goods with a bit of blue. But when blue became the most popular color for the textiles that Britain turned out in large quantities in the eighteenth century, the South Carolina indigo that colored most of this cloth became a major component in transatlantic commodity chains. In Red, White, and Black Make Blue , Andrea Feeser tells the stories of all the peoples who made indigo a key part of the colonial South Carolina experie
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Why South Carolina Indigo?; PART 1. South Carolina Indigo in British and Colonial Wear; Chapter 1. South Carolina Indigo in British Textiles for the Home and Colonial Market; Chapter 2. South Carolina Indigo in the Dress of Slaves and Sovereign Indians; PART 2. Indigo Cultivation and Production in South Carolina; Chapter 3. Botanists, Merchants, and Planters in South Carolina: Investments in Indigo; Chapter 4. The Role of Indigo in Native-Colonist Struggles over Land and Goods
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Chapter 5. Producing South Carolina Indigo: Colonial Planters and the Skilled Labor of SlavesPART 3. Indigo Plantation Histories; Chapter 6. Indigo and an East Florida Plantation: Overseer Indian Johnson Walks Away; Chapter 7. Slave John Williams: A Key Contributor to the Lucas-Pinckney Indigo Concern; Conclusion. South Carolina Indigo: A History of Color; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820346564
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0820345539
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820345536
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Red, White, and Black Make Blue Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life
Language:
English
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