Southern Perlo

SC rice named "Carolina Gold" launched the American Dream, moved more dirt than the Pyramids, and made South Carolina's lowcountry the world's richest place. Its harvests weighed millions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of Africans built and worked its fields.

Hear George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Laurens and formerly enslaved Maggie Black talk about Carolina Gold, and view archival photos from the Library of Congress and new photos of 300 year old rice canals as “Carolina Gold” by Walter Rhett, becomes your personal guide into the fascinating heritage of rice.