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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 to work the fields until after the American Revolutionary War. By the 1770s, rice accounted for over 50 percent of all exports from the colony. Due to the success of the rice export industry, an indigenous planter class rose to power over time, and these colonists would eventually join with others along the eastern seaboard to defy British dominance.
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7h149x797
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Port Royal in South Carolina
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map
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1
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7h149x797
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map
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normalized
title
Port Royal in South Carolina
description
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 to work the fields until after the American Revolutionary War. By the 1770s, rice accounted for over 50 percent of all exports from the colony. Due to the success of the rice export industry, an indigenous planter class rose to power over time, and these colonists would eventually join with others along the eastern seaboard to defy British dominance.
date
["1777"]
year
1777
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_004995
creators
Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Maritime Charts and Atlases
subjects
Nautical charts--South Carolina--Port Royal Sound--Early works to 1800
Port Royal Sound (S.C.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Beaufort (county)
North and Central America
Port Royal Sound
South Carolina
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
South Carolina
county
Beaufort
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1
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import
pubPlace
[London]
publisher
J.F.W. Des Barres
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sf268508b
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dn39z222j
schema:latitude
32.25
schema:longitude
-80.6667
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 74 x 58 cm.
notes
2nd state.
Relief shown by shading and hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
Prime meridian: Greenwich.
In lower left margin: 45.
In lower right corner: VII.
Appears in the author's Atlantic Neptune. London : [J.F.W. Des Barres], 1777-[1781].
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7h149x797
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map
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1
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