Rice agriculture enriched plantation owners to an astronomical degree; around the time of the American Revolution, the ...

The farmer grows organic rice, among other crops, at Turnbridge Plantation, where Richard Schulze Sr. resurrected nutty, aromatic Carolina Gold rice in the late 1980s. Get the recipe: Carolina ...

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 ...

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 ...

but a broader worry is whether we will learn the secrets of this vast — and vastly important — series of rice plantations before they gradually disappear under the waters of increasingly ...