This, combined with competition from indigo plantations in Central America and Spanish Florida that could harvest five to six crops a year, compared with Georgia and Carolina's two or three crops annually, caused colonial American indigo production to collapse.
Biblical context. The Biblical baby name Joseph is Hebrew in origin and its meaning is increase, Jehovah has multiplied. Joseph is pronounced jo-safe'. Joseph is the name of many men in the Bible. Some of them are mentioned below: Joseph was the elder son of Jacob and Rachael. He was his father's favorite.
Biblical name, from Hebrew Yaakov. This was borne by perhaps the most important of all the patriarchs in the Book of Genesis. Jacob was the father of twelve sons, who gave their names to the twelve tribes of Israel. He was the son of Isaac and Rebecca and twin brother of Esau.. Of uncertain origin, probably Germanic, from a short form of various female compound names containing the element av (of uncertain meaning). St Ava or Avia was a 9th-century abbess of Dinart in Hainault and a member of the Frankish royal family.