The Church of England (known later as the Protestant Episcopal Church) was established as the official state-supported church of South Carolina in 1706, with responsibility for recording births, christenings, marriages, and burials. Between 1706 and 1778, twenty-five parishes were established, including two for the Huguenots, who were allowed to use a French version of the Book of Common Prayer. Quakers settled in South Carolina early; the first group was joined by emigrants from Ireland in the 1750s and by Quakers from Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia after 1760.

The first dissenters from the Church of England were the Presbyterians. In 1680, they created the Independent or Circular Church in Charleston. The Huguenots or the French Protestants arrived in the colony in 1680, followed by the Swiss and German Lutherans in 1730. French Huguenots began to settle permanently in South Carolina in 1685, when land grants were issued along the shoreline. Presbyterians established their denomination in South Carolina during the early eighteenth century and later became associated with the Reformed Presbyterian Church. Lutherans also established themselves in South Carolina during the eighteenth century with the arrival of German and Swiss settlers. The Baptist Church is contemporary South Carolina's largest religious group, despite the fact that it was not established there until 1783. Methodists arrived in South Carolina about the same time as the Baptists (1783).

The Baptists, Quakers and Anabaptists were among the pioneering settlers in South Carolina. The Baptists were already established in the colony by 1670, the Methodists by the 1770s, and Jewish worshipers by 1749.

The Carolina slave trade, which included both trading and direct raids by colonists, was the largest among the British colonies in North America. Between 1670 and 1715, between 24,000 and 51,000 captive Native Americans were exported from South Carolina — more than the number of Africans imported to the colonies of the future United States during the same period. Additional enslaved Native Americans were exported from South Carolina to other U.S. colonies. The historian Alan Gallay says, "the trade in Indian slaves was at the center of the English empire's development in the American South. The trade in Indian slaves was the most important factor affecting the South in the period 1670 to 1715".

In the 1670s, English planters from Barbados established themselves near what is now Charleston. Settlers from all over Europe built rice plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry, east of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line. Plantation labor was done by African slaves who formed the majority of the population by 1720.

Meanwhile, Upstate South Carolina, west of the Fall Line, was settled by small farmers and traders, who displaced Native American tribes westward. Colonists overthrew the proprietors' rule, seeking more direct representation. In 1712, the former Province of Carolina split in to North and South Carolina. In 1719, South Carolina was officially made a royal colony.

South Carolina prospered from the fertility of the lowcountry and the harbors, such as at Charleston. It allowed religious toleration, encouraging settlement, and trade in deerskin, lumber, and beef thrived. Rice cultivation was developed on a large scale on the back of slave labor.

By the second half of the 1700s, South Carolina was one of the richest of the Thirteen Colonies.

During the American Revolutionary War, South Carolina was the site of major activity among the American colonies, with more than 200 battles and skirmishes fought within the state.

South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on May 23, 1788. A slave state, it was the first state to vote in favor of secession from the Union on December 20, 1860. After the American Civil War, it was readmitted into the United States on July 9, 1868.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), in 2010, the largest religion is Christianity, of which the largest denominations were the Southern Baptist Convention with 913,763 adherents, the United Methodist Church with 274,111 adherents, and the Roman Catholic Church with 181,743 adherents. Fourth-largest is the African Methodist Episcopal Church with 564 congregations and 121,000 members and fifth-largest is the Presbyterian Church (USA) with 320 congregations and almost 100,000 members.

Cruelties and Killings that Muted / Blocked

The Godly Roots

• Innocent bloodshed upon the land

• Stealing of land

• Breaking of covenants with the tribes

• Removing the ancient landmarks

• Slavery

• Doing it all in the Name of God !

• Oppression

• Political agendas to control, build and possess the wealth of the land while keeping it from others

• Racism

• Establishing free masonry in the government and economic systems

• Sacrificing babies to the spirit of death

• Establishing idols in the land and worshiping them

• Allowing foreign gods, false religions into our land

• Selfishness, humanism, individualism