<P> Lord William Campbell was the last English Governor of the Province of South Carolina . </P> <P> Numerous churches built bases in Charleston, and expanded into the rural areas . From the founding of Charleston onwards, the colony welcomed many different religious groups, including Jews and Quakers, but Catholics were prohibited from practicing until after the American Revolution . Baptists and Methodists increased in number rapidly in the late 18th century as a result of the Great Awakening and its revivals, and their missionaries attracted many slaves with their inclusive congregations and recognition of blacks as preachers . The Scots - Irish in the Backcountry were Presbyterians, and the wealthy planters in the Low Country tended to be English Anglicans . The different churches recognized and supported each other, eventually building the colony into a pluralist and tolerant society . Despite official religious tolerance, tensions did exist between Anglican and' Dissenter' factions throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries . </P> <P> The highly successful preaching tour of evangelist George Whitefield in 1740 ignited a religious revival--called the First Great Awakening--which energized evangelical Protestants . They expanded their membership among the white farmers, and women were especially active in the small Methodist and Baptist churches that were springing up everywhere . The evangelicals worked hard to convert the slaves to Christianity and were especially successful among black women, who had played the role of religious specialists in Africa and again in America . Slave women exercised wide - ranging spiritual leadership among Africans in America in healing and medicine, church discipline, and revival enthusiasm . </P> <P> Many of the rich planters came from Barbados and other islands in the Caribbean, and brought seasoned African slaves from there . The planters duplicated elements of the Caribbean economies, developing plantations for the cultivation of export crops, such as Sea Island cotton, indigo, and particularly rice . The slaves came from many diverse cultures in West Africa, where they had developed an immunity to endemic malaria, which helped them survive in the Low Country of South Carolina, where it frequently occurred . Peter Wood documents that "Negro slaves played a significant and often determinative part in the evolution of the colony ." They were integral to the expansion of the rice culture, and were also important in timber harvesting, as coopers, and in the production of naval stores . They were also active in the fur trade, and as boatmen, fishermen and cattle herders . </P>

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