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Cereals (such as rice, millet, and sorghum), yams, black-eyed peas, sesame (benne), muskmelons, okra, and Guinea squash were all subsistence crops transferred from West and Central Africa to English New World colonies, including Carolina.
Indigo, a plant that produces a blue dye, was an important part of South Carolina’s eighteenth-century economy. It was grown commercially from 1747 to 1800 and was second only to rice in export value. Carolina indigo was the fifth most valuable commodity exported by Britain’s mainland colonies and was England’s primary source of blue dye ...
20 cze 2016 · In the seventeenth century the term “plantation,” which formerly referred to any colonial outpost, evolved to refer specifically to large agricultural estates whose land was farmed by a sizable number of workers, usually slaves, for export crops.
Bere Barley, 1730-1850 — A six row barley originally cultivated in Scotland and brought to British America during the colonial era, this short season grain was grown as a summer crop in northern Europe, but a winter crop in the South. A landrace used for bannocks and other breads in Scotland, it was used primarily in brewing in the 18th ...
As the first major cash crop agricultural system in Carolina, inland rice cultivation proved to be the foundation of the colony’s plantation complex. This system launched rice as a profitable export and enabled South Carolina planters to participate in the wider Atlantic World economy.
15 kwi 2016 · In the late twentieth century, South Carolina farmers produced a diverse variety of plant and animal crops including grains, fruits, vegetables, poultry, cattle, and hogs as well as some cotton and tobacco.
Carolina Gold, the first variety of rice grown in South Carolina, provided the foundation for the economy of South Carolina during the colonial and antebellum periods. Rice shared its economic dominance with indigo during the latter 18th century and with cotton during the first one-half of the 19th century.
