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Hardcover Rice to Ruin: The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929 Book

ISBN: 1611178347

ISBN13: 9781611178340

Rice to Ruin: The Jonathan Lucas Family in South Carolina, 1783-1929

The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family's rice-mill dynasty

In the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice cultivation. When the labor-intensive milling...

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