Word: indigo
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rice and indigo-the main products-largely determined the social life of the colony. The cultivation of the former being especially unhealthy, and negroes being cheap, it became more profitable to work the slaves to their utmost capacity while they lived. This did much to keep the slaves in a state of savagery, and the people lived in constant dread of negro revolts. Accordingly none of the planters lived on their estates, but left them to the management of overseers, while they went to live in Charleston, where a brilliant society existed...
...Polka from "Queen Indigo," Strauss...
...economic plant department are many fine specimens of our economic plants such as coffee, tea, cinnamon, arrow-root, and anctiona or quinine plant, together with small specimens of the log-wood plant and the indigofero or the indigo dye plant...
Tremont. - Indigo and Cavalleria Rusticani...
Tremont. - Indigo and Cavalleria Rusticani...