or one of many other rice plantations scattered throughout the lowcountry of coastal South Carolina by the min-18th century. This picture, however, comes from the November 1859 issue of Harper's ...

In late October, Marion “Rollen” Chalmers stood next to a rice field ringed by pines and palm trees. He pointed out roseate ...

thousands of Africans were being imported each year to the colony of South Carolina, where they were forced to work in clearing land and cultivating the rapidly expanding rice plantations ...

the Gullah Geechee descended from Africans enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations along the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Most came from West Africa ...

The Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor stretches from the coast of Florida to the coast of North Carolina. Here's what you need ...

When I was 11, my school took a field trip to Walnut Grove Plantation, one of the oldest homes in South Carolina. The way the guides explained it, Scotch-Irish immigrants Charles and Mary Moore ...

When I was growing up in South Carolina, the oldest places ... bought up the old plantations. To the extent that they maintained the rice fields and the uplands, these new owners did so for ...

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by 1720 slaves made up a majority of South Carolina's population. Sen. Tim Scott and South ...

he has worked in the background of South Carolina’s rice revival. The farmer grows organic rice, among other crops, at Turnbridge Plantation, where Richard Schulze Sr. resurrected nutty ...