Eliza Lucas Pinckney (née Lucas)

1722 - 1793


Biography

From a slave-owning family on Antigua, and then of South Carolina, and the subject of a number of pieces of scholarship based on her surviving papers, including most recently Lorri Glover, Eliza Lucas Pinckney: an independent woman in the Age of Revolution (Yale, 2020), which gives brief background on the family in Antigua.


Further Information

Maiden Name
Lucas
Spouse
Charles Pinckney

Relationships (1)

Ward → Guardian
Notes →
This was probably an informal rather than formal relationship. Eliza Lucas was sent to London under the care of Richard Bodicote and his wife Mary; Bodicote was the London consignee of Eliza Lucas'...