Its home dates to 1826 and was built by William Lucas, a son of the rice mill inventor, Jonathan Lucas. In the 1970s, the ...

The Santee Delta is all about water, so hiking can be a challenge. But there are a few trails, some of which are built on old ...

Before it was purchased in 2010, the plantation house, parts of which are nearly 300 years old, and its sprawling gardens were open to the public.

In satellite images, Georgia’s former rice plantations stand out like misplaced puzzle pieces with their grid-like systems of ditches and canals abutting areas of undulating tidal channels.

Rice fields did not exist in South Carolina, at least not in the late 17th century, when British colonists and the Africans they enslaved began to move from the sugar plantations of Barbados into ...

Carolina Plantation Rice was the first business in South Carolina to be recognized nationally for being Green-e certified as an environmentally-friendly user of renewable energy.

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcoun ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields ...

A CAROLINA RICE PLANTATION OF THE FIFTIES—Herbert Ravenel Sass—Morrow ($10). The Rice Coast of South Carolina is fed by eleven rivers whose names read like one of the patriotic catalogs in ...

Black farmers in Jubilee Justice’s program grow the crop using SRI. They’re also reclaiming rice farming as their foodways.