Rice and the making of South Carolina : an introductory essay

Originally, Carolinians grew rice on dry land, but early in the eighteenth century, cultivation spread to swampy fresh water areas. Until the 1850s, rice reigned supreme. But large-scale rice production was limited to the tidal marshes and inland swamp, while cotton became profitable statewide after the invention of the cotton gin. In its heyday, however, rice made a few hundred planters extremely wealthy. It also contributed to cross culturation and the making of Carolina as a rich cultural hybrid. In this essay, it is this aspect of rice cultivation that Professor Littlefield describes.

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. James H. Hammond and the Southern Convention by Robert C. Tucker The Nesbitt Manufacturing Company’s Debt to the Bank of the State of South Carolina by J. M. Lesesne The Southern Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade, 1854-1860: A Factor in Secession by Jack K. Williams Richard Yeadon, Confederate Patriot by John C. Ellen, Jr.

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Some Aspects of British Radicalism, 1848-1855 by James W. Campbell The Emperor Hadrian as Pharaoh of Egypt by Richard H. Chowen Colonial Land Policies and the Slave Problem by Robert K. Ackerman The Tutor in the Ante-Bellum South by J. Issac Copeland

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Some Aspects of British Radicalism, 1848-1855 by James W. Campbell The Emperor Hadrian as Pharaoh of Egypt by Richard H. Chowen Colonial Land Policies and the Slave Problem by Robert K. Ackerman The Tutor in the Ante-Bellum South by J. Issac Copeland

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. The Role of the Commons House of Assembly in Proprietary South Carolina by Newton B. Jones Christopher Gadsden: Radical Idealist by E. Stanly Godbold The Slave Court System in Spartanburg County by William C. Henderson The American Nation in 1876 by Joseph Taylor Stukes

The Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association

Annually, the association publishes a journal, The Proceedings, which consists of papers presented at the annual meeting. Charleston Politics, 1900-1930: An Overview by Doyle W. Boggs Slave or Super-Slave: Who Really Did Labor in the Southern Cotton Fields by William F. Steirer, Jr. The Low Countries and the Quest for a Negotiated Peace, 1939-1940 by Birdsall S. Viault Protestant Church Spokesmen, Universal Military Training, and the Anti-Conscription Campaigns, 1940-1959 The Holiness-Pentecostal Revival in the Carolinas, 1896-1940 by Robert F. Martin The Duel in Nineteenth Century South Carolina: Custom Over Written Law by Nancy Torrance Matthews