Name/Title
The Market Preparation of Carolina Rice: An Illustrated History of Innovations in the Lowcountry Rice KingdomEntry/Object ID
2015.004.1Description
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 cmCollection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2015.004Source or Donor
New Library Books Purchased (2015)Acquisition Method
PurchasedCredit Line
Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund PurchaseLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Rice trade--South Carolina--History, Rice--South Carolina--HistoryBook Details
Author
Judd, William Robert, Porcher, Richard D. (Richard Dwight)Publisher
University of South Carolina PressDate Published
2014Call No.
HD9066 .S6444 P67 2014ISBN
9781611173512LCCN
2013042683Location
Location
Room
Granville RoomBuilding
Missroon LibraryCategory
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023General 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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April 5, 2023