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How Me Make Our Living

The South Carolina Colony has many large plantations, and mainly grows tobacco

and cotton. The colony also grows different varieties of fruits and vegetables. A leading
and unique business during this time in the 1700s is indigo marketing, with South
Carolina’s indigo displacing French and Spanish’s indigo. In the early years, rice was
also a big product in the South Carolina Colony, though it took the colonists around a
hundred years to perfect the industry. They had to figure out what kind of soil is best and
how to build machines to harvest, thresh, and husk the rice. Without rice supplying food

and indigo supplying items to trade, the city of Charleston as we know it would not exist.