Red, White, and Black Make Blue Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life

Name: Red, White, and Black Make Blue Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life
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ISBN: 9780820345536

ISBN-10: 0820345539

ISBN-13: 9780820345536

Edition: 2013

Authors: Andrea Feeser

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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 experience as she explores indigo’s relationships to land use, slave labor, textile production and use,…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 11/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Andrea Feeser is a writer and teaches art history, previously at the University of Hawai'i and currently at Clemson University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction. Why South Carolina Indigo?



South Carolina Indigo in British and Colonial Wear



South Carolina Indigo in British Textiles for the Home and Colonial Market



South Carolina Indigo in the Dress of Slaves and Sovereign Indians



Indigo Cultivation and Production in South Carolina



Botanists, Merchants, and Planters in South Carolina: Investments in Indigo



The Role of Indigo in Native-Colonist Struggles over Land and Goods



Producing South Carolina Indigo: Colonial Planters and the Skilled Labor of Slaves



Indigo Plantation Histories



Indigo and an East Florida Plantation: Overseer Indian Johnson Walks Away



Slave John Williams: A Key Contributor to the Lucas-Pinckney Indigo Concern


Conclusion. South Carolina Indigo: A History of Color


Notes


Index