Lady Digs the Blues: An Inspirational Journal of Eliza Lucas Pinckney - Paperback

Lady Digs the Blues is a fictional journal of the early years of Eliza Lucas Pinckney on the Caribbean island of Antigua, where she first felt the wonders and beauty of nature, to her transition to living in the South Carolina low country. Eliza Lucas Pinckney was essentially an American female farmer in the eighteenth century. Her faith and determination led her to develop an indigo crop that would survive and thrive in the American colonies and become one of its most important cash crops. Its cultivation and processing as a blue dye produced one-third of the total value of the colony's exports before the Revolutionary War.

Eliza was unlike many women of her time, as she was educated, independent, and accomplished. She rose to the top in an agricultural industry dominated by male farmers. She was an exception to the norm, exceeding by her own volition