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

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 this book, the author 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. --

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