Wassamasaw and the Revolutionary War

In the late 1680s, English planters in Barbadoes were discouraged over conditions there and many of them left and came to Carolina. In Barbadoes, a...

May 30, 2023
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In the late 1680s, English planters in Barbadoes were discouraged over conditions there and many of them left and came to Carolina. In Barbadoes, a colonial social system had already been established, with a plantation life developed upon the basis of slavery. These planters brought with them and gave to Carolina the Barbadian social customs, the parish electoral system and the slave system. Many Barbadians settled within the present bounds of Berkeley County, some of them being the 'Goose Creek men' of whom the Lords Proprietors warned Colonel Philip Ludwell when he became governor of the province.

Keith Gourdin