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This piece of historical analysis examines the role that climate events, especially hurricanes, played in hastening the failure of the Atlantic Coast rice industry more seriously than has earlier scholarship. In addition to problems with labor and market competition, a period of greater intensity and frequency of hurricanes, droughts and freshets exerted a financial, physical and psychological toll on the Lowcountry from 1893 to 1920 that convinced rice planters to abandon the industry.
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Tuten, J.H. (2009). “Don’t Want to See No More… Like That!”: Climate Change As a Factor in the Collapse of Lowcountry Rice Culture, 1893–1920. In: Dupigny-Giroux, LA., Mock, C. (eds) Historical Climate Variability and Impacts in North America. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2828-0_3
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