Port Royal in South Carolina

The staple industry in South Carolina was rice, produced on plantations in the coastal region known as the Low Country. This highly-detailed 1777 chart of the Port Royal region illustrates an area where there were many rice plantations, which relied on imported African slaves...

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7h149x797
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map
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normalized
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year
1777
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English
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06_01_004995
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Boston Public Library
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United States
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South Carolina
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county
Beaufort
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1
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[London]
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J.F.W. Des Barres
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