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Apr 15, 2016 · Using her $50,000 dowry, Heyward acquired land and other assets, eventually becoming the wealthiest rice planter in South Carolina. Through inheritance and purchase, Nathaniel owned or managed 35,000 acres and as many as two thousand slaves in Charleston, Colleton, and Beaufort Districts.
He was the largest slave owner in the history of the South, with some 2,000-slaves. His worth was estimated at just over $2 million, making him if not the wealthiest, then the among the wealthiest planters in antebellum South Carolina.
Reigning over the Lowcountry for almost two centuries, rice planters created the South Carolina coast’s distinctive culture and its most enduring conflicts.
By 1720, more than half the value of South Carolina exports came from rice and it was clearly the colony’s principal staple commodity. 59 By the 1770s, South Carolina’s rice grandees had become the wealthiest planters on the mainland. 60
Rice agriculture has been called "the best opportunity for industrial profit which 18th century America afforded." South Carolina became one of the richest of the North American. CAPTION: South Carolina planters were willing to pay higher prices for slaves from rice-growing areas.
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In South Carolina were concentrated many of the richest planters in the United States – and the greatest number of slaves. The planters' perceived economic and political interests substantially shaped the policy of South Carolina and, in turn, affected the history of our nation.
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plantations in the Carolina low country proved to be a more durable staple. Rice was introduced to South Carolina in the i69os and by c. I720 had become what it was to remain for the rest of the colonial period-the region's dominant export. Indeed, by c. I770 it was the third most valuable export from mainland America.
