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Use
the template Summarizing
Internet Resources when visiting links. Print it and make
copies as needed. Visit as many links as you can in the time you
are given or as your teacher directs. There are 29 links
to review for this role.
Explore
rice cultivation in the Lowcountry. You'll find crop statistics,
descriptions of the steps in the rice growing cycle, and images
and maps at these 9 links.
QUESTIONS
TO THINK ABOUT WHILE REVIEWING THESE LINKS
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How and why did rice cultivation develop in South Carolina?
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What role did enslaved Africans play in the development of the
rice culture?
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Where was the rice culture centered?
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How did South Carolina benefit from rice culture?
Research
Links
These
links will open in a new browser window. When you are finished
researching a particular link, simply close the browser window
that opened to return to this webpage.
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Rise
of the Georgetown Rice Culture
This
is a more detailed account with much valuable information, though
the reading level is more advanced.
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List
of Illustrations from the book A Woman Rice Planter
There
are approximately 90 line drawings from this important 1914
book. Click on the following pages to see illustrations of rice
cultivation: frontispiece, 9, 10, 11, 31, 34, 72, 79, 122, 232,
272, 317, 375, 376, 399.
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