Slavery and the South Carolina Rice Plantation

In his lecture "Slavery and the South Carolina Rice Plantation", historian Daniel C. Littlefield, Ph.D. focuses on the various African ethnic groups that were transported to America as slaves, how particular groups were preferred by South Carolina planters because of their experience working with rice cultivation, and the cultural contributions that they made to plantation life.
Dr. Littlefield served as Carolina Professor of History and director of the institute for African American Research at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of "Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina" and "Revolutionary Citizens: African Americans 1776-1804". Dr. Littlefield is also the guest curator for the SCHS exhibit in its rotating gallery, “Africa to America: The Plantation Culture of Early South Carolina”.