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The history of Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the longest and most diverse of any community in the United States, spanning hundreds of years of physical settlement beginning in 1670. Charleston was one of leading cities in the South from the colonial era to the Civil War in the 1860s.
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.
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During the 18th century, South Carolina's capital city of Charleston became a major port in the triangular trade, and local colonists developed indigo, rice and Sea Island cotton using slave labor as export goods, transforming the colony into one of the most prosperous of the Thirteen Colonies.
Jul 4, 2017 · The Colonial Period of Charleston, 1670-1776: Founding and Early Years. Story by planitcharleston.com / July 4, 2017. In 1663, the newly restored-to-the-throne King Charles II granted the Carolina territory to eight of his loyal friends, known as the Lords Proprietors.
Apr 15, 2016 · By the time the colony passed from the Lords Proprietors to the British crown, Charleston had survived hurricanes and threats from Indians, the nearby Spanish, and pirates. The western walls came down by 1720; it doubled in size from its original eighty acres by 1740.
Apr 17, 2020 · The Charles Town settled in 1670 in South Carolina was not the first attempt to create a Charles Town in what was then a vast Carolina region stretching from Virginia to north Florida.
May 9, 2024 · The settlement, originally called Charles Towne (for Charles II ), was established by English colonists in 1670 on the west bank of the Ashley, thus beginning the colonization of South Carolina. Moved to its present site in 1680, it became the commercial centre of trade in rice and indigo.
