CHARLESTON, SOAKING IN ITS BEAUTY AND HOSPITALITY, IT’S EASY TO FORGET THE DARKER CHAPTERS THAT UNFOLDED HERE. THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK OF ...

Carolina Gold rice was born in South Carolina more than 200 years ago. It helped make Georgetown County among the richest areas in the entire nation.

Carolina Gold rice was first revitalized in the 1980s by a South Carolina eye surgeon. The rice is still grown on Turnbridge Plantation in SC today.

Jesmyn Ward's new novel is "Let Us Descend." Jesmyn Ward, a two-time National Book Award winner, turns to the antebellum South in her new novel "Let Us Descend." Ward's heroine is Annis, an enslaved ...

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 Whitman’s ...

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 Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...

Plumfield Plantation in Darlington County produces Carolina Plantation brand white, gold and brown rice. It doesn't produce dirty rice, which is a traditional Cajun dish that could be made with any of ...

Jesmyn Ward, a two-time National Book Award winner, turns to the antebellum South in her new novel "Let Us Descend." Ward's heroine is Annis, an enslaved young woman, likely a teenager, whose world is ...