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Eliza Pinckney's dress
1750–80
made in England from silk she cultivated in South Carolina
Most women could not choose independent careers or run for political office in the 1700s, but they could help shape public life through family and personal relationships. From a young age, Eliza Pinckney managed her family's South Carolina plantations, established indigo as a marketable crop in the colony, and later raised two sons who became important officers in the Revolutionary War and political leaders afterward. |