In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Savannah physician and businessman wants to "restore" a 1,000-acre tract of marsh once used used for rice farming. The area, in ...

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 Whitman’s ...

A historic rice plantation today is a place of contradictions. It's beauty is undeniable, with its lush gardens, moss-draped live oaks, scenic waterways and beautifully built residences. Many of these ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) — Berkeley County is acquiring more than 636 acres on the historic Blessing Plantation to preserve what remains of a former rice plantation that carried West African ...

CHARLESTON, SOAKING IN ITS BEAUTY AND HOSPITALITY, IT’S EASY TO FORGET THE DARKER CHAPTERS THAT UNFOLDED HERE. THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON, FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The product that made South Carolina 1 of the richest in colonial North America is being harvested again along the coast. A 3-day rice harvest at Middleton Place plantation ...

For more than a decade now, the goings-on at Brunswick County's fabled Orton Plantation have occurred largely out of the public eye. For nearly a century before Orton was purchased in 2010, however, ...

Indigenous rights activists have condemned the Indonesian government’s decision to grant 328,000 hectares (810,505 acres) of ...