Politics in Colonial South Carolina

HE Carolina proprietors in the early i68o's confronted the problem of a colony that returned neither profits nor obedience to its owners. The proprietors met the challenge by launching two campaigns in i682, one to recruit new immigrants and the other to reform the government of the colony. They persuaded hundreds of families, mostly religious dissenters, to settle in South Carolina, but their political reforms succeeded only in stirring up an antiproprietary faction in the province. This party, composed mostly of Barbadians, came to be called the Goose Creek men. The ensuing conflict between proprietors and Goose Creek men plunged South Carolina into a decade of political chaos, while the colony floundered aimlessly without effective leadership from either party

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