The plan involved the establishment of eleven townships sixty or more miles north and west of Charleston but south and east of the fall line. In an attempt to rectify South Carolina’s racial imbalance with mass white immigration and to provide a front line of defense against the Spanish and the Indians, Governor Robert Johnson suggested a “Scheem. For colonial officials and the minority white population, slave insurrections were a perpetual threat, as were attacks from the Spanish at St. By 1730 African slaves outnumbered whites by a margin of two to one. With the development of rice as a staple crop early in the eighteenth century, the importation of African slaves increased rapidly, giving South Carolina a black majority population by 1710. As late as 1715, probably ninety percent of South Carolina’s population lived within thirty miles of Charleston. Settlement remained concentrated close to the capital along the Ashley, Cooper, and Edisto Rivers. For three decades following the founding of Charleston in 1670, population growth in South Carolina was painfully slow.
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