rice-growing

Updated: June 27, 2025

I know that the slaves suffer much, and no doubt many die in consequence of not being well clothed." "In the grain-growing part of the south, the slaves, as it relates to food, fare tolerably well; but in the cotton, and rice-growing, and sugar-making portion, some of them fare badly. I have been on plantations where, from the appearance of the slaves, I should judge they were half-starved.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

The Cingalese are peculiarly a rice-growing nation; give them an abundant supply of water and land on easy terms, and they will not remain idle.

Sir Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon

M. L. Blakely, of New York, one of the largest shingle manufacturers of the south, occupied as his headquarters the Bates Hill Plantation, on the Peedee. This gentleman had invited me, through the medium of the post-office, to visit him in the rice-growing regions of South Carolina.

Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop - Voyage of the Paper Canoe; a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5