Great Americans: The Strange Dependence of an Independent Woman
Thrust into running her family’s South Carolina plantations at 16, Eliza Lucas Pinckney forged a far more independent life than what we might imagine was possible for an 18th-century woman, writes Kathleen DuVal.
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