Alice Huger Ravenel Smith Watercolor: African American Workers Loading Rice on a Ship | History of SC Slide Collection

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An Alice Huger Ravenel Smith watercolor of African-American workers loading rice on a ship to send to market. Note the use of "head-toting" as a way of moving the heavy rice sacks.

Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association.

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Hoeing Rice "The Old Way" | History of SC Slide Collection
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A stereograph card shows hoeing rice "the old way." Hoe culture was the predominant method of working the soil in traditional agricultural societies, and was only slowly replaced by the use of mule...