Two Rivers: De Trouble I Be See

July 1854, Colleton District, South Carolina

A half-dozen years before Abe Lincoln's inauguration, comes another collision between European immigrants and African abductees that does not end well.

By 1854, the Tiffany family had enslaved over 300 Africans for more than a century on the 1,100-acre slave labor camp that they called the Tiffany Plantation. The Tiffanys were the largest rice producer in South Carolina's Colleton District. While the toil of enslaved Africans earned untold riches f...