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The market preparation of Carolina rice : an illustrated history of innovations in the Lowcountry Rice Kingdom / by Porcher, Richard D.,Jr.(Richard Dwight)(CARDINAL)316622;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-361) and index.Foreword / David S. Shields -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A brief history of rice -- The origins and introductions of rice seeds -- The culture of Carolina rice -- Harvesting -- Threshing -- Milling -- City mills and large plantation toll mills -- The golden age of rice, 1800-1860 -- The last days of rice planting -- Epilogue / Richard Dwight Porcher, Jr. -- Appendix 1: Original field research plantations and sites -- Appendix 2: Museums with originally manufactured products and/or machinery -- Appendix 3: United States patents for rice-processing machinery, 1829-1887 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."The first full-length work to feature detailed illustrations and descriptions of the implements and machines used to prepare Carolina rice for overseas markets, Market preparation of Carolina rice includes 160 illustrations, most of them meticulously hand-drafted by Judd expressly for this edition. The text begins with the preindustrial implements and techniques used by slaves in the late 1600s and early 1700s and concludes with the water-powered and steam-powered machines that drove rice threshing and milling until the end of the industry in 1911. In great detail the authors reveal the immense, continually evolving technological innovations of an agricultural industry that spanned the industrial revolution, as well as the history of the colony and state"--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Rice trade; Rice;
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Rice stocks [microform] : final estimates, 1988-93.
Microfiche.Mode of access: Internet at the USDA web site. Address as of 6/5/03: http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs /histdata.htm#sb; current access is available via PURL.
Subjects: Rice; Rice trade;
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South Korea commitment to buy U.S. rice : hearings before the Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, March 11 and 16, 1982. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Agriculture.Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar.(CARDINAL)274131;
Subjects: Rice trade; Rice trade;
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Review United States-Japan rice agreement : hearing before the Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, first session, February 26, 1981. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Agriculture.Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar.(CARDINAL)274131;
Subjects: Rice trade; Rice trade;
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Review of Japan's policy concerning the importation of rice, including a petition filed by the U.S. Rice Millers' Association : hearing before the Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, October 1, 1986. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Agriculture.Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar.(CARDINAL)274131;
Subjects: Rice trade; Import quotas; Rice trade; Export sales contracts;
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Breaking the land : the transformation of cotton, tobacco, and rice cultures since 1880 / by Daniel, Pete.(CARDINAL)129718;
Bibliography: pages 299-341.
Subjects: Cotton trade; Tobacco industry; Rice trade;
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Rice to ruin : the Jonathan Lucas family in South Carolina, 1783-1929 / by Williams, Roy,III,author.(CARDINAL)211418; Lofton, Alexander Lucas,1919-2011,author.(CARDINAL)355348;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-409) and index.Shipwreck at Cape Romain -- First tidal rice mill -- First rice toll mill -- Mill builder, troubleshooter -- Jonathan Lucas II -- William Lucas -- Death of the patriarch -- Rice planter extraordinaire -- William Lucas's Charleston villa -- Ann Lucas Pearce Venning -- William Lucas's expanding empire -- Jonathan Lucas II and his family in England -- The children of Jonathan Lucas II -- Jonathan Lucas III and J. J. Lucas -- Thomas Bennett Lucas -- William Lucas's children -- Secession, before and after -- Benjamin Simons Lucas's sons, war and aftermath -- William Lucas's progeny at war, prelude -- Alexander Lucas into action -- Comrades in arms -- Beginning of the end and the fall -- Attempts to regain a lost world -- Engagement and courtship of Alexander Lucas -- Marriage, rice, and domestic concerns -- Robert Lucas in California -- Death of Charles Lucas -- The frustrations of Robert Lucas -- Settling a depleted estate -- Pitfalls of the Lucas genealogy -- An heiress without her fortune -- Robert's hopes for Janie -- Brothers across the continent -- Defeat after defeat -- A closing circle -- Contrasts within the family -- Death, depression, decline -- Into the abyss -- Heir disputes, final settlement.
Subjects: Lucas family.; Lucas, Jonathan, 1754-1821; Rice trade; Rice;
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Rice and slaves : ethnicity and the slave trade in colonial South Carolina / by Littlefield, Daniel C.(CARDINAL)516350;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index.Price and perception -- Agents and Africans: the trade oversease -- Plantations, paternalism, and profitability -- Rice cultivation and the slave trade -- Perceptions and social relations.
Subjects: Slavery; Slave trade; Rice trade;
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Lowcountry time and tide : the fall of the South Carolina rice kingdom / by Tuten, James H.(CARDINAL)500353;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Rice trade; Rice; Plantations; Rice trade; Rice; Plantations;
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Slavery and rice culture in low country Georgia, 1750-1860 / by Smith, Julia Floyd,1914-2001.(CARDINAL)179533;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-251) and index.Production of rice. Tidewater culture in the Colonial Era -- Expansion of slavery and profitability of tidewater plantations in the nineteenth century -- The labor of low country slaves -- Overseers and drivers -- The factorage system and plantation supply -- The slaves. The slave trade, international and domestic -- Care, maintenance, and health of low country slaves -- Marching to Zion: the religion of slaves in coastal Georgia -- Slave culture on the Georgia coast -- Slave resistance, free Negroes, and racial attitudes in coastal Georgia.Rice plantations were found in coastal Georgia which included Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden counties.
Subjects: Enslaved persons; Rice trade; Plantation life;
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