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Carolina Gold Rice

Sprout flow in rice fields, Middleton Place, Summerville, South Carolina, ca. early 2000s, courtesy of the Middleton Place Foundation. During the colonial period, rice proved to be the South Carolina Lowcountry's most lucrative cash crop. Lowcountry planters primarily used enslaved African skills and labor in inland and tidal rice cultivation. Tidal rice plantations involved enslaved workers digging extensive systems of dikes, ditches, and fields, such as the one shown here at Middleton Place.

Rice burning

Drayton Hall

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Sullivan's Island Historic Marker, photograph, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, ca. 2000, courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service. Marker notes history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and pest houses on this island near Charleston. Queen Quet of the Gullah Geechee Nation stands to the left of the marker with a small child. Over forty percent of enslaved Africans forced to North America arrived through Charleston Harbor.

Old Slave Mart Museum, photograph by Jane Aldrich, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 2000.

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Old Exchange Building
Image courtesy of Jane Aldrich

Ashley Ferry Landing
Image courtesy of Jane Aldrich

Bunce Island, Sierra Leone, ca. early 2000s (top), 1726 (bottom), images courtesy of Comet Multimedia and The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. The Bunce Island slave fortress was a major supplier of enslaved West Africans to rice plantations in the British colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. Slave trader Henry Laurens was Bunce Island's business agent in Charleston.

Old St. Andrew's Episcopal Church [1706]

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