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Settlement in South Carolina

1607-1775. Learn the role of the African Slave Trade to the colonial economy (1607-1775), which included growing rice and indigo. Also learn about South Carolina's presence as one of the 13 colonies and how the colonial government (1607-1775) operated.
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Proprietary Grant | History of SC Slide Collection

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Proprietary Grant | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 14
Although it was the Englishman Sir Francis Drake whose raids persuaded the Spanish to abandon Santa Elena and concentrate on defending St. Augustine in 1587, it was nearly a century before the English...
Mulberry House and Street

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Mulberry House and Street
Episode 7
"Mulberry House and Street," painted by Thomas Coram around 1800, shows a typical mid-18th century South Carolina plantation. The "great House," while elegant, was not necessarily the enormous...
Purrysburg Cemetery | History of SC Slide Collection

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Purrysburg Cemetery | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 4
During the 1730s, to protect against Native American attack and slave uprising, the government made plans to establish eight townships in a semicircle about one hundred miles around Charles Town (see...
Bill of Exchange | History of SC Slide Collection

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Bill of Exchange | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 3
The availability of "real" money, in the form of coins made of gold and silver, was a constant problem in all of the English colonies. Their need to purchase manufactured goods from Europe meant that...