Author: Suzanne Cameron Linder Hurley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781880067567
Category : Georgetown County (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 879

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Author: Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgetown County (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charleston (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Shelia Hempton Watson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738517216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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When eight English noblemen known as the Lords Proprietors were granted the Charles Towne territory by King Charles II as a reward for their loyalty, the grant came with an express command to develop the area into a profit-making venture. Fortunately, the area came with a natural deep-water port, perfect for establishing trade. Soon trade in lumber, deerskins, and indigo established Charles Towne's wealth and prosperity, and the invention of the cotton gin and improvements in the rice crop cultivation helped boost the area's economy. By 1750, Charleston was the fourth largest city in colonial America--and the wealthiest, thanks in part to additional trade through Georgetown and Port Royal.

Author: Steve Roberts
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439664846
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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The history of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, can be summed up in four words: rice, sea, golf, and hammocks. The rivers threading through coastal South Carolina created an ideal environment for cultivating rice, and by the mid-18th century, vast plantations were producing profitable crops and wealthy landowners. But those plantations also produced malaria-carrying mosquitoes, so the landowners sent their families to the seashore for the summer and built the first houses on Pawleys Island starting in 1822. The end of slavery doomed the rice culture, and the old plantations were sold to rich Northerners for hunting and fishing retreats. By the 1960s, many of the old plantations were turned into golf courses, reviving the economy. But the beating heart of Pawleys Island remains the rhythm of the sea and what one early visitor called "the only beach in the world."

Author: Bienvenido O. Juliano
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9251031495
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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On title page & cover: International Rice Research Institute

Author: Damian Alan Pargas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813059070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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The Quarters and the Fields offers a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, mixed grain, rice, and sugar cane. He reveals how the demands of different types of masters and crops influenced work patterns and habits, which in turn shaped slaves' family life. By presenting a broader view of the complex forces that shaped enslaved people's family lives, not only from outside but also from within, this book takes an inclusive approach to the slave agency debate. A comparative study that examines the importance of time and place for slave families, The Quarters and the Fields provides a means for understanding them as they truly were: dynamic social units that were formed and existed under different circumstances across time and space.

Author: George C. Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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[December 2001]

Author: Robin M. Carter
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Identifies 200 prime bird sites in South Carolina.

Author: Walter B. Edgar
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1128

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With nearly 2,000 entries and 520 illustrations, this comprehensive reference surveys the history and culture of the Palmetto State from A to Z, mountains to coast, and prehistory to the present.