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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.
Carolinians searched for plantation crops which were suitable for Caroli- na's climate and soils. Colonists experimented with such cash crops as. tobacco, citrus, grapes, ginger, indigo, and sugarcane without success. By 1700 they found rice to be the plantation crop best suited to the Carolinian.
1 lut 2010 · The black rice thesis pictures South Carolina planters as strangers to rice, utterly lacking in the knowledge to produce it, when in fact early colonists had identified the commodity as a desirable article of commerce and were steeped in a European culture of agricultural innovation stocked with techniques used to grow the crop in inland and ...
In the first years of the Carolina colony, droughts and freezes killed their subsistence crops and their experimental plots of ginger, indigo, sugar cane, and cotton. To survive, colonists relied increasingly on maize, which they called “Indian corn.”
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.
Settlement of South Carolina’s Colonial Backcountry: From Conflict to Prosperity . Abstract . The Carolina Colony was the first foothold for the British in the lower south region of North...
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.
