Rough Rice and Sea Island Cotton: The Georgia Coasting Trade, 1800-1861
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Review by: Buddy Sullivan, Coastal Georgia Historian - December 20, 2024
"Of the many books that have been written about the Southern plantation economy none have heretofore directly addressed the vitally important coasting trade that enabled the movement of agricultural goods from field to market. Charles E. Pearson's refreshing study is about plantation owners, cotton and rice factors, marketing and finance, and the sailing captains and their vessels that traversed the low country tidal waterways in the antebellum period. This is an important study that provides a much-needed perspective on an aspect of Southern agriculture that has been ignored for far too long. ROUGH RICE AND SEA ISLAND COTTON is thus a highly original and thoroughly researched work that is also very readable. It will certainly be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about the plantation South."