Swedes in the South: Swedes and their slaves in Charleston South Carolina
Most of the first Swedish emigrants who immigrated to USA before the American Civil War 1861-1865 settled in the Northern States. A small number, however had settled in the Southern states which in 1861 broke away from the Union and founded the Confederate states of America . According to the US Federal Census of 1850, around 680 Swedish-born lived in the South by 1860 (accordint tho the census)they were around1200. One of the Souths oldest and most significant cities was and is Charleston in South Carolina . The state of South Carolina, like most of the southern states at this time, was dominated by an agrarian economy with large-scale plantation farming with slaves as labor as opposed to the more industrialized non slavery based economy of the North. 1862 Johnson Map of North Carolina and South Carolina - Geographicus - NCSC Johnson-1862 Charlston was a thriving port city founded 1670 by English colonists . The city was first called Charles Town after t