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  • 6 - Inland Rice Cultivation and the Promise of Agricultural Reform

  • Hayden R. Smith, College of Charleston, South Carolina
  • Book:
    Carolina's Golden Fields
    Published online:
    28 October 2019
    Print publication:
    31 October 2019, pp 164-192

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 documents inland cultivation strategies during the final two decades of the antebellum period.Using as a model the Biggin Basin, located at the headwaters of the Cooper River, this chapter discusses how a community of former inland rice planters revitalized the practice to supplement cotton production as a way to counter the fluctuating market. Revival of inland rice was a consequence of agricultural reform that took hold in select planter circles in the mid-nineteenth century. Lowcountry planters were part of this larger population having received the message through agricultural journals and societies, and scientific books. Promoters of agricultural reform called for a modern and scientific practice of agriculture to maintain soil fertility and crop output, halt westward migration, and curb the loss of status and political power by the South Atlantic states.