The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History of Innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom

Name/Title

The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History of Innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom

Entry/Object ID

2015.004.1

Description

Contains detailed illustrations and descriptions of the implements and machines featuring technology used to prepare Carolina rice for overseas markets, beginning with the preindustrial implements and techniques used by African and African American slaves and workers in the late 1600s and early 1700s and concludes with the water- and steam-powered machines that drove rice threshing and milling until the end of the industry in 1911. Contents: Foreword by David S. Shields -- A brief history of rice -- The origins and introductions of rice seeds -- The culture of Carolina rice -- Harvesting -- Threshing -- Milling -- City mills and large plantation toll mills -- The golden age of rice, 1800-1860 -- The last days of rice planting -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Original field research plantations and sites -- Appendix 2: Museums with originally manufactured products and/or machinery -- Appendix 3: United States patents for rice-processing machinery, 1829-1887. Includes references to the following plantations: Barnhill, Black Out, Bluff, Brewton, Brookgreen, Buck Hall, Cooper River, Butler's Island, Causton, Cedar Hill, Cedar Spring, Chicora Wood, Cockfield, Colerain, Comingtee, Dean Hall, Drayton Hall, East Hermitage, Eldorado, Estherville, Fairfield (South Santee River), Fairfield (Waccamaw River), Fairlawn (Charleston County), Goodwill, Gowrie, Hobonny, Hoover, Hope, Hopeton, Indianfield, Jericho, Kinloch, Laurel Hill (Georgetown County), Laurel Springs, Lavington, Limerick, Magnolia, Mansfield, Maybank, Mepkin, Middleburg, Middleton, Millbrook (Santee River), Mulberry, Myrtle Grove, Nemours, Newington, Nieuport, Nightingale, Old Combahee, Old Town (Louisville, GA), Peach Island, Plumfield, Pooshee, Poplar Grove, Proctor, Rice Hope (North Santee), Richmond, Rochelle, Rose Hill (Combahee River), Silk Hope (Cooper River), Social Bluff, Social Hall, South Mulberry, Sunnyside, Tibwin, Turnbridge, Tweedside, Wantoot, Waverly, Weehaw, Weymouth, Willtown, Woodboo, Woodbourne, and Woodville. Also includes photographs from Middleburg Plantation, Mansfield Plantation, Cockfield Plantation, Chicora Wood Plantation, West Point Rice Mill, Stoke Rice Mill, Nieuport Plantation, Social Hall Plantation, Laurel Hill Plantation, Waverly Rice Mill. xxiv, 379 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 27 cm

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2015.004

Source or Donor

New Library Books Purchased (2015)

Acquisition Method

Purchased

Credit Line

Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund Purchase

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Rice trade--South Carolina--History, Rice--South Carolina--History

Book Details

Author

Judd, William Robert, Porcher, Richard D. (Richard Dwight)

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press

Place Published

Location

Columbia, SC

Date Published

2014

Call No.

HD9066 .S6444 P67 2014

ISBN

9781611173512

LCCN

2013042683

Location

Location

Room

Granville Room

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Richard Dwight Porcher and William Robert Judd. Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-361) and index.

Created By

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Create Date

March 16, 2015

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

April 5, 2023