Charleston Sc early charter and slaves brought from barbados in the 1600s

This charter was for a long time as dear to the people
of Carolina as is Magna Carta to the English. In
addition Lord Ashley (not yet Lord Shaftesbury), calling
to his aid the great philosopher John Locke, prepared
the " Fundamental Constitution," which enlarged
and added to the statutes of His Majesty. Among
other things it arranged for the proposed "-nobility," "in
order to avoid a too numerous democracy." This nobility
was little more than a plutocracy, depending upon the
amount of land owned by a man, which might be bought
by him, without regard to birth or breeding, or service
to the State. The titles passed by purchase as well as by
descent.
As land was held at a penny an acre, it did not require
a large fortune to become a " baron " with twelve
thousand acres, a cassique with twenty-four thousand,
or even a landgrave (these were the titles chosen) with
forty-eight thousand. The estates were called "
baronies,"and there were many which long kept the name, as the
" Wadboo," the "Broughton," the "Colleton," the " Fairlawn
Baron. but no one was addressed as "baron"or "cassique," and the landgraves, who were generallygiven the title to qualify them as governors (there weresome exceptions), simply prefixed the title to their surnames.
No man was landgrave of Edisto or of Accabee,
but Landgrave Morton or Landgrave Smith. Neither
did any" lord of the manor "exercise manorial rights over
white leetmen or negro slaves. Furnished with this constitution
and with some more practical" Temporary Laws," the colony began its career. A contemporaneous, facsimile copy of this constitution
(commonly called " Locke's ") is among the treasuresof the Charleston Library, and may be seen by the
curious.
Governor Sayle had brought with him only one hundred
and sixty persons, bat the number of inhabitants
was rapidly increased by subsequent immigration.
Especially was this the case when Governor Sir John
Yeamans came from Barbadoes, bringing with him negroes
accustomed to the agriculture of the islands and
to labour under tropical suns. By so doing he decided
the institutions and conditions of Carolina for all future
time.