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“A Plan of Airyhall, A rice and cotton plantation situated on the south side of the Ashepoo River, St. Bartholomew’s Parish, Colleton County,” South Carolina, May 1849, courtesy of the John McCrady Plat Collection, Charleston County Register of Mesne Conveyance.

Cooper-Ashley-Wando River Basin, USGS satellite image, 2008, image courtesy of the United States Geological Survey.

Dual flanking canals wrapping around Cypress Grove and Back River Plantations, with water flowing left to right, Charleston, South Carolina, 6 August 1792, courtesy of the Ball Family Papers, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.

“A View of CHARLES TOWN the Capital of South Carolina in North America,” 1768, engraving by Pierre Charles Canot from original painting by T. Mellish, Charleston, South Carolina, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Generals Steedman and Fullerton conferring with the freedmen in their church at Trent River Settlement, 1866, sketch by Theodore R. Davis,Harper's Weekly, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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Advertisment for five-cent Certified Cremo cigars, in The Evening World, June 24, 1903, courtesy of Library of Congress: Chronicling America.

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African Americans "toating [sic] rice on dock," Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1879, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Bulletin board outling DPO-Local 15 events and news after Local 15 absorbed into the Distributive, Processing, Office Workers of America (DPO), ca. 1952, Georgia State University, Southern Labor Archives.

Carolina Gold Rice, image by Kay Rentschler, ca. early 2000s, courtesy of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation.

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Cigar Factory workers at a FTA-CIO Local 15 union meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, detail image from FTA News, March 1948, courtesy of South Carolina Historical Society.

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