Hampton Plantation is located in a rural stretch north of McClellanville. Once upon a time it was a significant producer of Carolina Gold rice.

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 ...

Its home dates to 1826 and was built by William Lucas, a son of the rice mill inventor, Jonathan Lucas. In the 1970s, the ...

After researching the history of peasant rice farmers in West Africa for over a decade, I had recently extended my research to enslaved laborers on Lowcountry South Carolina rice plantations.