Carolina's Golden Fields: Inland Rice Cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670-1860

by Hayden R. Smith

This book examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from their inception at the turn of the seventeenth century to the brink of their institutional collapse at the eve of the Civil War. Inland rice cultivation provided a foundation for the South Carolina colonial plantation complex and enabled planters' participation in the Atlantic economy, dependence on enslaved labor, and dramatic alteration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110842340X
• ISBN13: 9781108423403
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"