The island has a rich history that started with seasonal occupation by Native Americans thousands of years ago, and continued with European exploration and the Sea Island Cotton trade.
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The island has a rich history that started with seasonal occupation by native Americans thousands of years ago, and continued with European exploration and the Sea Island Cotton trade.
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This is a young forest resulting from the clearing of hardwood trees, either for their wood or for the cultivation of crops such as indigo or sea island cotton.
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He was one of the state's largest planters of Sea Island cotton; his cotton commanded a high price from lace-makers in Belgium and France, and won several prizes, for both its quality and its length.
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Callawassie Island's acreage, fertile for planting, was largely dedicated to farming and livestock during this period, making way for successive cash crop industries in indigo and sea island cotton, which were in high demand by European trading nations.
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Its capital city of Charleston became a major port for traffic on the Atlantic Ocean, and South Carolina developed indigo, rice and Sea Island cotton as commodity crop exports, making it one of the most prosperous of the colonies.
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"When you start to be very successful, people get jealous, " he said the other day at Voyage, dressed in his own creations : olive linen drawstring pants and a T-shirt of Sea Island cotton worn under a transparent purple nylon shirt.
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Since 1879 the colony of Fiji had imported indentured workers ( as cheap labour ) from India to work in the European-owned plantations, which produced ( according to demand ) sea island cotton from the late 1860s to the early 1870s, then copra, then sugarcane from around 1880.
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Formerly a merchant in Leghorn, Italy, working for the Levant Company in Constantinople and scion of a well-connected English merchant family, Levett took up a large grant in Florida, which he later abandoned in favor of Georgia, where he was one of the first growers of Sea Island cotton.
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Levett Jr . became one of the first planters in America to sow Sea Island cotton, taking advantage of both his knowledge of the crop that he brought with him from Izmir, and of a global shortage of cotton following the Haitian Revolution and the abolition of slavery on that cotton-producing island.
