The Nature Conservancy bought Chelsea Plantation for $32M to prevent development and protect wildlife, water quality, and ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

Once, at Hampton Plantation State Historic Site in South Carolina, I asked a ranger about visiting the fields' earthen structures-dams and dikes enslaved people built to make rice cultivation ...

he has worked in the background of South Carolina’s rice revival. The farmer grows organic rice, among other crops, at Turnbridge Plantation, where Richard Schulze Sr. resurrected nutty ...

or one of many other rice plantations scattered throughout the lowcountry of coastal South Carolina by the min-18th century. This picture, however, comes from the November 1859 issue of Harper's ...

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by the early 18th century slaves made up a majority of South Carolina's population.

Chelsea Plantation, located in Jasper County, was purchased May 14 by the Nature Conservancy for conservation.

painted by South Carolina artist Alice Huger Smith. The 1936 watercolor was one of thirty created for a book called A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties. The book, based on boyhood ...

Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War.” ...