indigo

Examples of indigo in the following topics:

• Agriculture

  • Plantation economy in the Old South was based on agricultural mass production of crops such as cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco.
  • Crops cultivated on antebellum plantations included cotton, tobacco, indigo, and rice.
  • In the 1740s, Eliza Lucas Pinckney began indigo culture and processing in coastal South Carolina.
  • Indigo was in heavy demand in Europe for making dyes for clothing .
  • Carolina indigo succeeded in displacing French and Spanish indigo in the British and in some continental markets, reflecting the demand for cheap dyestuffs from manufacturers of low-cost textiles.

• The Plantation Economy and the Planter Class

  • Prominent plantation crops included cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, figs, rice, kapok, sisal, and indigo.
  • Crops cultivated on antebellum plantations included cotton, tobacco, indigo, and rice.
  • The indigo crop was grown for making blue indigo dye in the pre-industrial age.
  • Mahatma Gandhi's investigation of indigo workers' claims of exploitation led to the passage of the Champaran Agrarian Bill in 1917 by the British colonial government.

• Slavery in the South

  • Early on, enslaved people in the South worked primarily in agriculture—on farms and plantations growing indigo, rice, and tobacco.
  • The Chesapeake region and North Carolina thrived on tobacco production, while South Carolina and Georgia thrived on rice and indigo.
  • While the southern part of Carolina produced thriving economies on rice and indigo (a plant that yields a dark blue dye used by English royalty) throughout the 18th century, the northern part of Carolina—later established as the separate colony of North Carolina—turned more toward tobacco production, like its neighbor Virginia.

• The Consumer Revolution

  • Some necessities and virtually all luxuries were imported to the few small cities and the larger plantations of South Carolina and Virginia; in return, raw materials such as for tobacco, rice, and indigo were exported.
  • By the 18th century, regional patterns of development had become clear; the New England colonies relied on shipbuilding and sailing to generate wealth while plantations (many using slave labor) in Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas grew tobacco , rice, and indigo.

• Background

  • These included the crimson pigment, kermesic acid, the blue dye, indigo, and the yellow saffron pigment, crocetin.
  • A rare dibromo-indigo derivative, punicin, was used to color the robes of the royal and wealthy.

• Colonization

  • In the few small cities and among the larger plantations of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, some necessities and virtually all luxuries were imported in return for tobacco, rice, and indigo (blue dye) exports.
  • By the 18th century, regional patterns of development had become clear: the New England colonies relied on ship-building and sailing to generate wealth; plantations (many using slave labor) in Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas grew tobacco, rice, and indigo; and the middle colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware shipped general crops and furs.

• Color Schemes

  • The spectrum of colors consists of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, in that order.
  • It's best used with either warm colors (such as red, orange and yellow) or cool colors (such as blue and indigo), creating an aesthetic that has a certain temperature as well as proper color harmony.

• How successful are eco-industrial parks?

  • For over 20 years, Indigo Development (headed by Ernest Lowe) has worked to cultivate, and provide information about, industrial symbiosis and eco-industrial parks.

• Dispersion: Rainbows and Prisims

  • We see about six colors in a rainbow—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet; sometimes indigo is listed, too.

• Basic Color Vocabulary

  • The spectrum of colors contained in white light consists of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, in that order.