It's market day in Charleston, South Carolina. Hundreds of people bustle about the historic business district, wandering from ...

Charleston, South Carolina plantation transforms into a place of learning Every corner at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens tells a story of beauty -- and resilience Share Updated: 8:10 PM EDT May ...

The farmer grows organic rice, among other crops, at Turnbridge Plantation, where Richard Schulze Sr. resurrected nutty, aromatic Carolina Gold rice in the late 1980s.

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 ...

In 1685, John Thurber, a pirate, inadvertently introduced rice to America. After a storm damaged his ship, he stopped in Charleston, SC, where he met Dr. Henry Woodward. In exchange for assistance ...

Rice and rice planting in South Carolina low country / David Doar.--The last days of rice planting / Theodore D. Ravenel.--The true story of how the Madagascar gold seed rice was introduced into South ...

A group of singers travels across the U.S. singing Gullah spirituals. These songs have been passed down from their enslaved ancestors who were forced to work the cotton and rice plantations of the ...

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.

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.

That event led to a number of people in the Gullah communities of South Carolina and Georgia traveling back to Sierra Leone in 1989, which included current state Sen. John Matthews.