Examples of Rice Kingdom in the following topics:
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- South Carolina was the first colony founded deliberately on slave labor to support its growing rice economy.
- South Carolina, later dubbed the "Rice Kingdom," was one of the first North American colonies to be deliberately founded on slave labor.
- By 1850, a South Carolinian rice planter, Joshua John Ward, was the largest American slaveholder, with an estate that held 1,130 slaves and gave him the title, "King of the Rice Planters."
- The planters relied on the expertise of their African slaves imported from the Rice Coast.
- For instance, enslaved Africans showed planters how to properly dyke the marshes, periodically flood the rice fields, and use sweetgrass baskets for milling the rice quicker than wooden paddles.
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- By the middle of the nineteenth century, touring companies had taken minstrel
music not only to every part of the United States, but also to the United
Kingdom, Western Europe, and even to Africa and Asia.
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- The slave trade then expanded greatly as European colonies in the New World demanded an ever-increasing number of workers for the extensive plantations growing tobacco, sugar, and eventually rice and cotton.
- In the 15th century, the Spanish invaded and colonized the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa under the direction of the Kingdom of Castille.
- Historians have widely debated the nature of the relationship between the African kingdoms and the European traders.
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- Plantation economy in the Old South was based on agricultural mass production of crops such as cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco.
- Crops cultivated on antebellum plantations included cotton, tobacco, indigo, and rice.
- Planters earned wealth from two major crops: rice and indigo, both of which relied on cultivation by slave labor.
- The rice became known as Carolina Gold, both for its color and its ability to produce great fortunes for plantation owners.
- Plantation economy in the Old South was based on agricultural mass production, usually of cotton, rice, or indigo.
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- Every colony had slaves, from the southern rice plantations in Charles Town, South Carolina, to the northern wharves of Boston.
- Early on, enslaved people in the South worked primarily in agriculture—on farms and plantations growing indigo, rice, and tobacco.
- Tobacco was very labor-intensive, as was rice cultivation.
- The Chesapeake region and North Carolina thrived on tobacco production, while South Carolina and Georgia thrived on rice and indigo.
- Despite its proprietors’ early vision of a colony guided by Enlightenment ideals and free of slavery, by the 1750s, Georgia was producing quantities of rice grown and harvested by slaves.
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- The great majority of slaves worked on plantations or large farms, where good-quality soil and climate made for labor-intensive cultivation of lucrative cash crops such as rice, tobacco, sugar, and cotton.
- For example, women laborers were the predominant work force for rice cultivation within the task system of the Southeastern United States.
- This was particularly the case for slaves with knowledge about rice cultivation on rice plantations.
- The highly developed and knowledgeable skills concerning rice planting possessed by slaves led to their successful ability to use these skills as a bargaining chip in determining the length and conditions of their bondage in the Americas.
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- However, the major allied victors of World War II, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union, all agreed the area belonged to the French.
- The original caption of this photo reads: "A French Foreign Legionnaire goes to war along the dry rib of a rice paddy, during a recent sweep through communist-held areas in the Red River Delta, between Haiphong and Hanoi.
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- Some necessities and virtually all luxuries were imported to the few small cities and the larger plantations of South Carolina and Virginia; in return, raw materials such as for tobacco, rice, and indigo were exported.
- By the 18th century, regional patterns of development had become clear; the New England colonies relied on shipbuilding and sailing to generate wealth while plantations (many using slave labor) in Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas grew tobacco , rice, and indigo.
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- Every colony had slaves, from the southern rice plantations in Charles Town, South Carolina, to the northern wharves of Boston.
- The European demand for New World cash crops, especially sugar, tobacco, rice, and cotton, led to a demand for labor to cultivate these crops.
- Not only were Africans well suited to tropical climates, they also brought special skills and husbandry knowledge for crops such as rice, which the British found useful.
- In the North American colonies, the importation of African slaves was directed mainly southward, where extensive tobacco, rice, and later, cotton plantation economies, demanded extensive labor forces for cultivation.
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- Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, as well as U.S.
- Prior to the war, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a threat to their security and that of their coalition/regional allies.