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​​This website briefly overviews what is taught broadly about colonization in South Carolina. It is an immense history, therefore an abbreviated version regarding Africans, resistance, achievements,  and the fight for liberation is presented. 

 

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The conventional narrative of the Mayflower often dominates discussions of colonization in American history, emphasizing the Transatlantic and Middle Passage trade. However, recent discoveries indicate that the Spanish established the initial settlements in the Pee Dee regions of South Carolina in 1526 and on Sapelo Island, Georgia in the mid-1500s, predating St. Augustine, Florida. Enslaved Africans were captives in these early expeditions.

 

A century later, plans emerged in the English Caribbean as sugar plantation colonies faced overcrowding. Initially, South Carolina supplied agricultural products for the overpopulated British West Indies, particularly Barbados. Eventually, Sir John Yeamans became one of the principal Lord Proprietors of the Carolinas and served as Governor. Yeamans and other proprietors and merchants encouraged settlers to South Carolina. The enslaved population by 1720, became a "Black Majority".

 

The rest is history.

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Source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147517/stained-winyah-bay  
             https://slaverylawpower.org/barbados-slave-code/