Long before there were cobblestone streets along the Charleston
battery, there was rice and there were slaves-the twin pillars upon
which colonial Carolina wealth was built. But by the Civil War both
began to crumble along with the planter aristocracy they supported.
Seed from Madagascar chronicles the linked tragedies of the
prominent Heyward family and South Carolina's rice industry while
underscoring the integral role African Americans played in the
fortunes of the planter class and the precious crop. As much about
race as about rice, Duncan Clinch Heyward's account offers keen
insights into Gullah culture and the paternalism of the low country
planters. He describes the master-slave relationship, the planting
and marketing of rice, and the changes wrought by the Civil War.
Peter Coclanis's vivid new introduction to this Southern Classics
edition places Heyward's chronicle in its historical and cultural
context, making Seed from Madagascar as important today as when it
first appeared in the 1930s.
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