True Indigo

An extraordinary sixteen-year-old girl in colonial South Carolina defied all expectations to achieve her dream and make history. This is the incredible true story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the indigo trade in the 1700s. School children know her as "the indigo girl" for her early work to produce the costly blue dye from the indigo plant, but she was more than that. This is her story, and why she is an unexpected icon of American history.
Faced with sickness, loneliness, loss and more responsibilities than any young girl should have on her small shoulders, Eliza kept on trying, following one set-back after another to save the homes of her family and the enslaved people whose lives depended on them. Fire. Sickness. Depression. And a traitor, a man who wanted nothing more than to destroy Eliza's hope for the future of her family, her bold plan to take away the Blue Gold of the French king and give it to the Crown of England.