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Author Feeser, Andrea, author.

Title Red, white, and black make blue : indigo in the fabric of Colonial South Carolina life / Andrea Feeser.

Publication Info. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2013.
©2013

Item Status

Edition 1st edition.
Description 1 online resource (x, 140 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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, sartorial expression, and fortune building."-- Publisher's web page.
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Subject Indigo industry -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
Indigo industry.
South Carolina.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Indigo -- South Carolina.
Indigo.
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
Plantation life.
Plantation owners -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
Plantation owners.
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
Enslaved persons.
African Americans -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
African Americans.
South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
Race relations.
Textile fabrics -- History -- 18th century.
Textile fabrics.
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century.
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
Chronological Term 1600-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Feeser, Andrea. Red, white, and black make blue. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2013] 9780820338170 (DLC) 2013003108 (OCoLC)828056000
ISBN 9780820346564 (electronic book)
082034656X (electronic book)
9780820338170
0820338176
9780820345536
0820345539