The article, entitled "The Rice Lands of the South," describes the life of African Americans forced to work on rice plantations, including their work schedules, religious activities, and recreations.

thousands of Africans were being imported each year to the colony of South Carolina, where they were forced to work in clearing land and cultivating the rapidly expanding rice plantations ...

Rice agriculture enriched plantation owners to an astronomical degree; around the time of the American Revolution, the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina was one of the wealthiest ...