About the Rice Planter in Goergetown

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Rice Planter Lifestyle
by Christopher C. Boyle

By 1840s, the rice planters in the Georgetown District were gentlemen of leisure. The construction of the rice plantation system was complete, overseers, and to a less extent drivers managed fields and slaves. Planters employed factors to market and sell their crops and bankers to handle their money. With their finances managed for them and discipline administered by resident overseers, the job of the planter was to provide for their families and slaves. Therefore, the final generation of antebellum rice planters lived their lives traveling and merrymaking.

Each year, at the end of May, out of fear of contracting malaria, commonly referred to as "country fever" by the planting families, the rice planters moved away from their plantations and did not return until the first week in November. During the summer and fall months most planters spent time with relatives or friends in other parts of South Carolina or in other states; some spent time abroad in Europe. The most popular in-state retreats of the Georgetown planters, were Pawleys Island, Murrells Inlet, Charleston, and a small community on the Pee Dee River called Plantersville.
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