USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Royal Colony of South Carolina-The French Huguenot Settlers. The first wave of French Huguenots came to South Carolina in the 1680s. They established the settlement Jamestown on the Santee River north of Charles Town, and elsewhere in the lowcountry.

Detailed explanation-2: -While most of the Huguenots that left France went to European countries, a few did immigrate to the colonies. In South Carolina, the Lords Proprietors promoted settlement by Huguenots, hoping that they could assist with the production of cash crops such as wine, olives, and silk.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Huguenots (/ˈhjuːɡənɒts/ HEW-gə-nots, also UK: /-noʊz/-⁠nohz, French: [yɡ(ə)no]) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Huguenot Society of South Carolina was established in 1885 to preserve the memory of the Huguenots who left France prior to the promulgation of the Edict of Toleration, November 28, 1787. Today, the Society has nearly 2, 000 members who are descendants of those Huguenots.

Detailed explanation-5: -Practice of the “heretical” religion was forbidden. Huguenots were ordered to renounce their faith and join the Catholic Church. They were denied exit from France under pain of death. And, Louis XIV hired 300, 000 troops to hunt the heretics down and confiscate their property.