Cotton was exported from C-town. I read an interesting history of C-town. Prior to the Civil War, the two main concerns in C-town was fire and slave revolts. The city burned down several times. The frequency of slave revolts on the surrounding plantations was increasing. Prominent politicians had come to the realization that the slave dependent economy had to change. More and more share cropping was coming to be,
Cotton was exported from C-town’
And imports?
We recently found out on family search that we are descended from the Rutledges of Charleston SC. One ancestor signed the Declaration of Independence. He must have been quite a courageous man for those times.
These days his accomplishments are overshadowed because he owned a plantation and many slaves.
Interestingly enough, S.C began as a colony of Barbados! The island of Barbados became one huge slavery driven industry of sugar cane. They looked North for hardwood (having no trees left standing on the island). They experimented with sugar cane in S.C. without success. They turned to tobacco there and the rest is history.......