Rice to Ruin: The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929

by Alexander Lucas Lofton and Roy Williams III

The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family's rice-mill dynasty

In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice cultivation. When the labor-intensive milling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611178347
• ISBN13: 9781611178340
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"