South Carolina Sea Islands families facing land loss from climate change, development
ABC News
Families have farmed this land for generations, but it's being lost to climate change.
Joseph Fields' family has farmed the same land on the South Carolina Sea Islands for over a century.
His fields of strawberries were dug where slaves once lived and where the first shots were fired in the Civil War to set them free.
Fields' grandparents were farmers, who passed the land on to his parents, who passed it on to him, each generation working the fields forged on a graveyard of oppression.
"My grandson, he wants to take over the farm. I'm the third generation, and he'll be the fourth generation," Fields said. "What's special about this place? Because we love it. We, by the water and everybody over here is brothers and sisters. And everybody enjoying the free life, the free outdoor life."
