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 ...

Berkeley County announced the acquisition of Blessing Plantation in Huger. The county plans to turn the 628 acres into a ...

Berkeley County is acquiring more than 636 acres on the historic Blessing Plantation to preserve what remains of a former ...

HARDEEVILLE, S.C. — In late October, Marion “Rollen” Chalmers stood next to a rice field ringed by pines and palm trees. He pointed out roseate spoonbills as the birds launched from their perches, ...

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 ...

SC plantation with ties to Robert E. Lee sells for $9 million. Plantation Services/provided A 274-year-old plantation along the Combahee River in Beaufort County with ties to Robert E. Lee and Frank ...

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 ...

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 ...