History 3321E Lecture : Plantation Nexus Cont sept 28.doc
22 Mar 2012
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This is a crop of the low country south carolina originally. Continued into the 19th century but is not grown there anymore. Rice cannot leave the coast just by the nature of its cultivation it will not move west. Need tides butt cannot allow the salt to get in. One of the plantations have over 500 slaves. This labour is the worst ( ex building carols in waist deep water with poisonous snakes and horrid heat) Mosquitos carried diseases malaria and yellow fever. Seemed to whites was that the balks survived the rice areas better then whites. Blacks had sickle cell (anemia) made you resistant to the malaria and yellow fever. Rice cannot be grown on a mom& pop op. Milling of the rice separate the husk very carefully. Rice never went into a boom in the 19th cent. Growing system and lots of rain impossible above 31st parallel. Big sugar crops are in the west indies.
