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Carolina Gold Rice: The Ebb and Flow History of a Lowcountry Cash Crop
Carolina Gold Rice The Ebb and Flow History of a Lowcountry Cash Crop Author:Richard Schulze Although it never achieved the notoriety of cotton, Carolina Gold rice?the variety of rice found in the South Carolina Lowcountry?was an integral part of the state?s economy for two centuries. First introduced from Madagascar by a shipwrecked sea captain, Carolina Gold rice perhaps saved the fledgling colony at the beginning of the eighteenth ce... more »ntury. However, the labor-intensive process of growing rice encouraged the establishment of slavery and in due course contributed to the collapse of the Lowcountry economy following the Civil War.
In Carolina Gold Rice, Richard Schulze, the man who reintroduced this crop to South Carolina after nearly a century?s absence, provides the fascinating inside story of an agricultural powerhouse that once gave rise to some of the largest fortunes of the New World. Drawing upon both historical research and his own personal experience, Schulze succeeds in bringing the story of Carolina Gold back to life.« less