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The South Carolina Rice Plantation

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  • Robert Allston, detail of an oil painting by George Whiting Flagg, 1850s; in a private collection
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    … in 1821, and his papers, The South Carolina Rice Plantation, provide important agricultural, political, and social information about the pre-Civil War South. By scientifically draining and reclaiming swamps in his state, he developed one of the last great rice plantations in the Atlantic coast lowlands. He was also the author…

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