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The South Carolina Colony was classified as one of the Southern Colonies. The Province of South Carolina was an English colony in North America that existed from 1663 until 1776, when it joined the other 12 of the 13 colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of South Carolina. Founding of the South Carolina Colony.
South Carolina. Founded: 1663 by English colonists. Major Industry: Plantation agriculture (indigo, rice, tobacco, cotton, cattle) Major Cities : Charleston. Colony Named for: from Carolus, the Latin word for "Charles," Charles I of England. Became a State: May 23, 1788. More on Colonial South Carolina.
SC’s Diverse Religious History. Charleston in 1733, map by Herman Moll. As one of the original thirteen colonies, South Carolina has long included an array of religious diversity belying its reputation for rigid conservatism.
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The southern colonies of America, including Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, had a diverse religious landscape. Although Anglicanism was prominent as the main church, Catholicism and various schismatic Protestant denominations were also present in the region.
- 17th Century: An Emphasis on Religious Uniformity
- A Handful of Colonies Promote Religious Diversity
- The 'Great Awakening' Ushers in Even More Diversity
- Enslaved Africans Bring Their Own Beliefs; Some Become Baptists
- Small Pockets of Islam and Judaism
- The Founders’ Faiths
North America’s English colonies were founded as distinct Protestant societies, with their own charters and, with a few exceptions, an emphasis on religious uniformity. In Virginia, the oldest of the original 13 colonies, religion was a major topic in the first meeting of the first colonial assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1619. The representat...
There were notable exceptions to this attitude among the colonies. One was in Rhode Island, where a breakaway Puritan named Roger Williams, who’d been expelled from Massachusettsin 1635, imagined his new colony on Narragansett Bay as a “shelter for persons distressed of conscience.” He promoted the idea of a society where religion should not be reg...
Then, in the mid-18th century, came the most important religious event of pre-Revolutionary America: the 'Great Awakening.' That’s when an evangelical style of preaching upended religious traditions and helped reinvigorate America’s religious culture, making it more energetic, more diverse and more independent—especially outside New England. The mo...
As the transatlantic slave trade dramatically grew, nearly 1 in 5 of the 1.1 million people living in the 13 colonies was Black by the mid-18thcentury. Enslaved Africans brought with them a range of religious beliefs. Some practiced Christianity, which had found converts on the western African coast starting in the 16thcentury. Some were Muslim. Mo...
Islam was the dominant religion in the upper reaches of sub-Saharan Africa, and there is evidence of Muslim believers among North America’s enslaved Africans—in particular, in the Lowcountryof South Carolina. Runaway slave ads from the region sometimes made reference to Muslim origins. Jews became a permanent part of colonial life starting in the s...
On the eve of the American Revolution, no single Protestant denomination could claim more than one-fifth of the colonies’ religious adherents, according to Butler. The Church of England—once dominant, and gradually reconvened as Episcopalianism following the break with England—was down to about 15 percent. The leading Founders—including George Wash...
Chastized by Scorpions: Christianity and Culture in Colonial South Carolina, 1669 1740. Church History 79:2 (June 2010), 253-270. American Society of Church History, 2010. doi: 10.1017/S000964071000003X.
Apr 16, 2016 · I wanted to know how religion was perceived in the early American port cities, mainly Boston, Massachusetts, and Charleston, South Carolina. More specifically, I wanted to research how the literal word of “religion” was used during the time leading up to the American Revolution.
