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South Carolina was the only English colony in North America that favored African labor over White indentured servitude and Indigenous labor. South Carolina had the highest ratio of Black slaves to White colonists in English North America, with the Black population reaching sixty percent of the total population by 1715.
Aug 1, 2016 · The expansion of slavery throughout the state led to the full maturity of the slave society in South Carolina. By 1860, 45.8 percent of white families in the state owned slaves, giving the state one of the highest percentages of slaveholders in the country.
Nov 9, 2009 · Named Carolina after King Charles I, the colony was divided into South Carolina and North Carolina in 1710. Slavery Enslaved Africans were first brought to South Carolina by the Spanish...
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Apr 22, 2021 · The Stono Rebellion of 1739 in South Carolina is the largest slave revolt launched in the Thirteen Colonies. Led by a slave named Jemmy, around 20 slaves gathered at the Stono River on Sunday, 9 September 1739, raided a warehouse for weapons, and then marched toward the safety of Spanish St. Augustine, Florida where they would be free.
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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the expansion of slavery in the American colonies from South Carolina to Boston. White colonists' responses to revolts, or even the threat of them, led to gross overreactions and further constraints on enslaved people’s activities. An empire of slavery.
With the expansion of the colony's plantation economy, numerous African slaves were imported to South Carolina via the Atlantic slave trade, who comprised a majority of the population by 1708, and were integral to its development.
The forced migration and labor of enslaved Africans produced tremendous wealth for elite European settlers in South Carolina, but the development of a black majority also increased the threat of slave rebellion against the colony’s white minority.