Rebecca Motte Talk led by Margaret Pickett
Join us to learn and ask questions.
About Rebecca Motte
Raised in privilege in Charleston, Rebecca Motte demonstrated unwavering commitment toward the American Revolution war efforts. She directed her plantation workforce to fortify the city’s defenses and later supported the Continental forces by supplying provisions from her plantation and townhouse. Hear the story of this prominent woman’s adventures under the British siege of Charleston, including her escape upriver to join Patriot forces and her provision of the tools necessary to destroy the British headquarters in her occupied plantation home! By war’s end, she emerged as one of South Carolina’s wealthiest individuals.
About Presenter
Margaret (Peggy) Pickett is an independent researcher, author and living history presenter. In addition to developing and presenting history programs for schools, she has researched and created programs in which she portrays women of the past. Her current portrayals include Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Dorothy Sinkler Richardson and Rebecca Motte. She is the co-author of The European Struggle to Settle North America 1521 – 1608 and the author of Eliza Lucas Pinckney Colonial Plantation Manager and Mother of American Patriots, 1722 – 1793. Her latest book Rebecca Brewton Motte American Patriot and Successful Rice Planter, 1737 – 1815 was published in 2022.
This event is a discussion, not an in-character performance.
In person at the Hughes Main Library, 25 Heritage Green Pl, Greenville, SC, 29601; via livestream on YouTube – a link will be in event description located here: https://historycomesalive.org/ and a few days after the event a recording of it will be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@GreenvilleLibrary/search?query=chautauqua
