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- Settled by the English in 1670, South Carolina had a wealthy, aristocratic, and influential colonial society based on a plantation agriculture that relied on a labour force of Black slaves. By 1730 people of African ancestry had come to represent some two-thirds of the colony’s total population.
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3 days ago · By the mid-18th century South Carolina would become the wealthiest British colony in mainland North America, but in recent years scholars long familiar with its distinctive plantation system have turned more attention to these earlier, formative decades.
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2 days ago · South Carolina, constituent state of the U.S., one of the 13 original colonies. Shaped like an inverted triangle, it is bounded on the north by North Carolina, on the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the southwest by Georgia. Columbia, located in the center of the state, is the capital and largest city.
1 day ago · The colonial South included the plantation colonies of the Chesapeake region (Virginia, Maryland, and, by some classifications, Delaware) and the lower South (Carolina, which eventually split into North and South Carolina; and Georgia).
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2 days ago · Appendix I. A register of grants of land in South Carolina between the years 1675 and 1765 has been preserved under the reference CO. 5, 398. The entries for 1738 have been extracted and are given below. The register records the name of grantee, place where the land granted lay, number of acres, date of grant and rent.
1 day ago · They removed Jefferson's assertion that King George III had forced slavery onto the colonies, in order to moderate the document and appease those in South Carolina and Georgia, both states which had significant involvement in the slave trade.
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1 day ago · Devoted to plantation agriculture that depended on enslaved labor, South Carolina became a slave society: it had a majority-Black population from the colonial period until after the Great Migration of the early 20th century, when many rural Blacks moved to northern and midwestern industrial cities to escape Jim Crow laws.
5 days ago · The members were known as “Burgesses,” and were elected to represent the towns and plantations in the colony. Their purpose was to meet with the Governor and the Governor’s Council to discuss and pass laws for the colony. Over time, the House of Burgesses gained more power and eventually became a bicameral legislature.
