When the remnants of Hurricane Matthew threatened the coastal lowlands of South Carolina, 335,000 people fled for higher ground. “You gated us out, now you can’t get in.”Boats damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Hilton Head Island, S.C. David Goldman / Associated Press Boats damaged by Hurricane Matthew in Hilton Head Island, S.C. 15, which gave the freed black men the Sea Islands and abandoned rice plantations. The first bridges to the mainland were built in 1950, and coastal development arrived with them when Charles Frasier began construction of the Sea Pines Plantation on Hilton Head Island in 1957. By 2000, poor rural black residents of the Sea Islands were far outnumbered by white, wealthy landowners.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 04, 2016 10:01 UTC