Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus are joined by Dr. Lorri Glover, an expert on a little-known woman entrepreneur of the eighteenth century. She had “schemes,” negotiated with men, made a fortune, and still fulfilled the era’s ideal of a mother and a woman. Why don’t we know more about her?

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OUTLINE:

0:00 - Intro

1:22 - Who was Eliza Lucas Pinckney

3:25 - Eliza's Upbringing and Sense of Self

5:56 - Absentee Landholders

6:57 - How Lorri Found Eliza and the Primary Sources She Used

11:42 - The Importance of Digital Humanities

14:17 - Eliza Developing Schemes

19:17 - The Dangers of Sugar Production And Eliza's View on Slavery

24:52 - Taking Over the Plantations

28:47 - Was Eliza a Typical Woman

32:52 - Indigo and Eliza’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

40:09 - Eliza's Marriage and Loss

45:18 - Eliza's Connection to London and Becoming a Patriot

48:22 - A Model of the Plantar Patriarch

52:01 - Favorite Eliza Story

54:36 - Eliza as a Religious Woman

57:55 - Who is Daniel Park

1:05:22 - Exploring Eliza’s Legacy: Historical Sites in South Carolina

EPISODE LINKS:

Lorri Glover, PhD - https://www.slu.edu/arts-and-sciences/history/faculty/glover-lorri.php

Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution - https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300236118/eliza-lucas-pinckney/

Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Letters & Memoranda, 1740-1762 - https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text5/elizapinckney.pdf

Antigua - https://www.britannica.com/summary/Antigua-and-Barbuda

George Washington's Barbados Diary, 1751-52 - https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5139/

All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds Among the Early South Carolina Gentry - https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/89/1/207/689079

The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762 - https://uscpress.com/The-Letterbook-of-Eliza-Lucas-Pinckney-1739-1762

The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry - https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/PinckneyHorry/

The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen - https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/PNKY.html

“Conservation Complete for the Eliza Lucas Pinckney Gown” – https://www.charlestonmuseum.org/news-events/conservation-complete-for-the-eliza-lucas-pinckney-gown/

The Charleston Museum - https://www.charlestonmuseum.org

Stono Rebellion - https://www.britannica.com/topic/insurrection-politics

The Great Awakening - https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Awakening

Indigo in South Carolina - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/indigo-making-comeback-south-carolina-180980987/

Charles Pinckney - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Pinckney

Daniel Parke - https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/parke-daniel-1669-1710/

John Custis IV gravestone - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30234605/john-custis

Hampton Plantation - https://south-carolina-plantations.com/charleston/hampton.html

Rainbow Row, Charleston, S.C. - https://charleston.com/charleston-insider/lowcountry-lifestyles/the-captivating-history-of-rainbow-row

Thomas Pinckney Home - https://charleston.com/charleston-insider/diary-of-a-charleston-tour-guide/114-broad-street-colonel-thomas-pinckney-house

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