MOONROY

South Carolina was a colony full of Patriots for the majority were descended not from the English but from the French, the Irish, the Scottish, and the Jewish. It also had a large African population, in itself varied, from fieldhands newly arrived who spoke neither English nor French, those who were third and fourth generation and spoke both, and some who had been freed and ran their own business. South Carolina as a colony ran off five Royal Governors and in 1764 seized the shipment of stamp pa…