In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

or one of many other rice plantations scattered throughout the lowcountry of coastal South Carolina by the min-18th century. This picture, however, comes from the November 1859 issue of Harper's ...

he has worked in the background of South Carolina’s rice revival. The farmer grows organic rice, among other crops, at Turnbridge Plantation, where Richard Schulze Sr. resurrected nutty ...

Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, ...

Most anyone knows that Harriet Tubman served as spy, soldier, nurse and North Star navigator during the Civil War.

painted by South Carolina artist Alice Huger Smith. The 1936 watercolor was one of thirty created for a book called A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties. The book, based on boyhood ...

Edda Fields-Black is still processing the fact that she was awarded a 2025 Pulitzer Prize. “It’s just beginning to set in. It ...

SAC- 2025-00123 3200 Devine Street LLC has applied to the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services for a State Certification and Construction In Navigable Waters Permit to ...

Chelsea Plantation, located in Jasper County, was purchased May 14 by the Nature Conservancy for conservation.

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by the early 18th century slaves made up a majority of South Carolina's population.