Who brought indigo to the southern colonies?

Answer 1

Indigo, which was used to make dyes for clothing, , was brought to the southern colonies of British North America and made profitable by Eliza Luckas Pinckney in the middle eighteenth century.

Indigo, an indigenous commodity of the Middle East and South Asia, was brought to South Carolina by Pinckney, but had been cultivated in the New World at much earlier dates. Pinckey's significant contribution came in establishing a production that allowed indigo to be cultivated and produced into dyes en masse. Like contemporary plantations of the American southern colonies, indigo was cultivated with slave labor.

Answer 2

Indigo is a plant that is used to produce a blue dye. Before artificial dyes people had to use plants and other things from nature to dye cloth and woolens. To get the color purple in the 14th century mussels were used and the cloth was soaked into the mixture of mussels with other things [ I think if I remember right that urine was added as well]. Getting color was a long process, stinky, and took a knowledge of what could be used to get a specific color.