Carolina Gold Rice The Ebb And Flow History of a Lowcountry Cash Crop

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 perhaps saved the fledgling colony at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 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 this fascinating inside story of a crop that once gave birth to some of the largest fortunes in America. Drawing upon both historical research and his own personal experience, Schulze succeeds in bringing this once-forgotten legend back to life.Schulze Richard is the author of 'Carolina Gold Rice The Ebb And Flow History of a Lowcountry Cash Crop', published 2005 under ISBN 9781596290945 and ISBN 1596290943.