Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields is Now Available

As I promised earlier this week: Copies of Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields are now available in the local history sections at all our Branch Libraries under call number 975.703 HEY.

Still not convinced that this book is for you? Here's what our own beloved USC-B Professor Emeritus and Public Library Foundation of Beaufort County Board Member, Dr. Larry Rowland, wrote in his review of this title for USC Press:

"The saga of the Heyward family of the Carolina Lowcountry is nearly unsurpassed in American history. Colonel Daniel Heyward fought Indians and Spaniards in the early eighteenth century and carved an empire from the Southern frontier to become the largest planter in South Carolina and one of the richest men in America. His oldest son, Thomas, signed the Declaration of Independence, and his youngest son, Nathaniel, became one of the leading practitioners of tidal culture rice and the largest slave owner in the history of the South. On the eve of the Civil War, the tentacles of Heyward family wealth stretched from New York to Texas. The family letters published here for the first time recount the decline of that vast fortune as a consequence of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Expertly edited by Margaret Belser Hollis and Allen Stokes, and with an illuminating introduction by eminent economic historian Peter Coclanis, this collection of letters will be a classic of South Carolina history and it should be eagerly sought by specialists and enthusiasts alike."

Enjoy!