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Voices from Colonial America: South Carolina 1540-1776 (National Geographic Voices from ColonialAmerica)
Voices from Colonial America South Carolina 15401776 - National Geographic Voices from ColonialAmerica Author:Robin Doak Did you know that the Spanish attempted to establish a colony in what is now South Carolina 40 years before the English founded Jamestown in Virginia? Or that the colony's name is derived from two European kings named Charles? — Step back into the early years of South Carolina when the Cherokee and the Catawba were the largest of 29 native groups... more »; and when the colony was one of the few places where Jews and Quakers were welcome in the New World. Learn how the first indigo plants were grown by a 16-year-old girl; and meet such Revolutionary War heroes as Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion and Thomas "the Gamecock" Sumter.« less