Episode 155: Hemp Cultivation in Early South Carolina
Charleston Time Machine - A podcast by Nic Butler, Ph.D. - Fridays
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In South Carolina’s early years, the provincial and imperial governments offered cash bounties to encourage local planters the grow hemp on a commercial scale. The crop showed promise, but its brief success was soon overshadowed. Despite its failure to take root, the rise and fall of hemp forms one of the most interesting and least-remembered chapters in this state’s agricultural heritage.