Rich swamps and rice grounds

• Main Author: Smith, Hayden Ros
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: uga 2012
• Subjects: Rice cultivation; Slavery; Landscape; Drainage; Irrigation; South Carolina; Coastal Plain; Lowcountry; Charleston; Ashley River; Cooper River; Wando River; Edisto River; Biggin Basin; Rantowles Basin; Limerick Plantation; Cypress Grove; Back River Plantation; Charleywood Plantation; Fairlawn Plantation; Clayfield Plantation; Wythewood Plantation; Windsor Plantation; Jericho Plantation; Wantoot Plantation; Woodboo Plantation; Pooshee Plantation; Santee Canal; Edisto; Back River
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/28606; http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/smith_hayden_r_201212_phd

This study discusses the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from their inception at the turn of the seventeenth century to their institutional collapse during the Civil War. Inland rice cultivation provided a foundation for the South Carolina colonia...