Elite South Carolina women left an unusually rich record of the Revolution. Eliza Lucas Pinckney, exceptionally educated and the first to package indigo for export, sent two sons into the Continental Army and wrote forcefully about the cause of “divine liberty.” Ann Ashby Manigault tracked British movements in a wartime diary. Rebecca Brewton Motte famously instructed Patriot soldiers to burn down her own house to drive out occupying British officers. And Susanna Smith Elliott sewed banners for the Second Regiment, presented at Sullivan’s Island the day after the battle.
Interviewees
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Elizabeth Chew
- CEO, South Carolina Historical Society
