Indigo Plantations and Science, therefore, deserves to be read as one of the finest studies on 'colonial knowledge' that has been published in recent years.' Madhumita Saha, Technology and Culture ...

Then they make the blue cloth out of that thing that they raise right there on the plantation called indigo. There’s some of that indigo that does grow up there on the Sand Hills to this day and time.

It honors the history of enslaved people working on indigo plantations in the United States and connects it to the cultural history of American blue jeans. The Indigo Road Project will be on view in ...