By Tony Remmel

The settlers who settled in South Carolina where mostly were men who had fled from religious persecution at home as the Huguenots; they wanted to seek a frontier life. South Carolina attracted a lot of people because it possessed a seaport, a metropolis, and it was much smaller in size than North Carolina.

Born in 1475, died in Toledo Spain October 18, He was a Spanish explorer who in 1526 tried to establish the first European settlement San Miguel de Gualdape which is in present day South Carolina. William Sayle Was an explorer and a settler and was the first governor of South Carolina.

South Carolina’s Colonial rule had a Popular government which was the first government in South Carolina. When the first immigrants landed they formed a popular assembly which began to frame laws on the basis of liberty. William Sayle was their leader and first governor, but he soon died and was succeeded by Yeamans, who ruled for four years, when he was dismissed for having thrived himself at the expense of the people. Yeamans where then followed by John West, an able and honorable man, who held the office for nine years. In 1690 the horrific Sothel, who had been driven from North Carolina, came to South Carolina, and he was head of the government, and began his career horrifically but the people soon rose against him and he was forced to flee.

They grew rice in the marshy ground and swamps. South Carolina had one of the biggest slaveholding community in America, the African death rate was very high in South Carolina because, they had work on the malaria infested atmosphere of the rice swamps. Charleston which was the biggest city in south Carolina was a major seaport because it brought in ships from different parts of the world such as Europe, the West Indies, and from New England bringing the goods and luxuries it needed.

Black people could be purchased for forty pounds and, the planter found it more profitable to work him to death than to take care of him. Almost from the beginning the slaves in South Carolina outnumbered the whites Throughout the Colonial Period, the Carolinas participated in numerous wars with the Spanish and the Native Americans, particularly the Yamasee, Apalachee, and Cherokee. During the Yamasee War of , South Carolina faced near annihilation due to Indian attacks. An Indian allliance had formed to try to push the colonists out, in part from a reaction to their trade in Indian slaves for nearly 50 years since The effects of the slave trade affected tribes throughout the Southeast.