A mass shooting killed four and injured several others on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, home to the largest Gullah community.

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 poems. From north to south they are the Waccamaw ...

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 old plantation sites have been converted into public ...

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, the historic plantation house, parts of which are nearly ...

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, a history professor at Carnegie Mellon University ...

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 OF THE SLAVE MART, TO THE PLANTATIONS THAT SURROUND THE ...

Plumfield Plantation in Darlington County produces Carolina Plantation brand white, gold and brown rice. It doesn't produce dirty rice, which is a traditional Cajun dish that could be made with any of those three varieties. The rice-production process ...

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 outside Charleston is underway. The plantation grows and ...