Eliza Lucas Pinckney was a remarkable individual who greatly impacted agriculture in the Southern colonies by discovering an alternative way to grow indigo, leading it to become a largely exported cash crop, and thrived in her passion, even under the pressures of being a woman. Since the “..indigo blue dye that they had been using is primarily a product of the French West Indies,” the colonists had to find a way to farm it themselves (SouthCarolinaETV). Although growing indigo is not as hard as making it into dye, the colonists who lived in the thirteen colonies still could not figure out how to get the blue pigment. Therefore, even though it took many years, once Eliza found another way to grow and process indigo, it highly affected the New