The inhabitants, furthermore, had no surplus income with which to buy slaves.

The recruits who continued to come from the West Indies doubtless brought some blacks for their service; but the Huguenot exiles from France, who comprised the chief other streamlet of immigration, had no slaves and little money.

Most of the people were earning their bread by the sweat of their brows.

The Huguenots in particular, settling mainly in the interior on the Cooper and Santee Rivers, labored with extraordinary diligence and overcame the severest handicaps.

That many of the settlers whether from France or the West Indies were of talented and sturdy stock is witnessed by the mention of the family names of Legare, Laurens, Marion and Ravenel among the Huguenots, Drayton, Elliot, Gibbes and Middleton among the Barbadians, Lowndes and Rawlins from St.Christopher's, and Pinckney from Jamaica.