Connecting with Rice: Carolina Lowcountry and Africa

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank Lisa Randle, Teacher Consultant with the South Carolina Geographic Alliance, for her assistance in developing this activity. We also acknowledge a grant from the Institute for African American Research at the University of South Carolina that made portions of this work possible.

Notes

¹ South Carolina Social Studies Academic Standards, Indicator 8-1.6: “Explain how South Carolinians used natural, human, and political resources to gain economic prosperity, including trade with Barbados, rice planting [author emphasis], Eliza Lucas Pinckney and indigo planting, the slave trade, and the practice of mercantilism” (SCDE, 2005).

²The Combahee River in South Carolina's Lowcountry is part of the ACE Basin, so named for the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto Rivers that flow toward the same section of the state's Atlantic coastline. Hobonny Plantation last grew rice in the 1920s and served as a duck hunting area in later years. Summers are hot, water moccasins and alligators inhabit the area, and other misery can be found in its insect population: “Ain't no skeeters like Hobonny skeeters” (Tuten, 2010, p. 2).