Province of South Carolina

The Province of South Carolina was a British colony in North America from 1712 until independence in 1776. Its territory became the U.S. state of South Carolina.

Province of Carolina: An English colony chartered in 1663 across territory later divided into North and South Carolina. South Carolina emerged as a distinct province from this larger proprietary colony.
South Carolina rice plantations: Large agricultural estates that grew rice in South Carolina's coastal lowlands using enslaved labor. Rice exports anchored the province's wealth and concentrated power among planters.
James Moore (governor): A colonial governor of South Carolina who led English forces during the Tuscarora War. His campaigns show how provincial leaders pursued expansion and military power.
Yamasee War: A 1715–1717 conflict in which the Yamasee and allied Native groups attacked English settlements in Carolina. The war destabilized the province and helped shift its trade and settlement patterns.
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina: A 1669 constitutional plan for Carolina drafted chiefly by John Locke for its proprietors. The document reveals the hierarchical political design proposed for the colony's early government.
Atlantic slave trade: The forced transportation and sale of millions of Africans across the Atlantic from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. It supplied the enslaved population on which the colony's plantation economy depended.
John Barnwell: An Irish-born colonial officer and politician active in South Carolina in the early eighteenth century. His role in the Yamasee War illustrates the province's fragile alliances and frontier conflicts.
South Carolina Lowcountry: The coastal and near-coastal region of South Carolina, historically shaped by rice cultivation and slavery. Its plantation landscape and enslaved majority were built during the province's colonial period.
South Carolina in the American Revolution: The political and military conflict in South Carolina from the imperial crisis through independence and war. The province's resistance to Britain culminated in independence in 1776.
South Carolina Commons House of Assembly: The elected lower chamber of South Carolina's colonial legislature. It represented free male property holders and contested authority with royal governors and the upper chamber.

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Province of North CarolinaCompared with: Its separate development clarifies the northern province’s distinct colonial history.