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History of the Jews in Charleston, South Carolina
The
history of Jews in Charleston, South Carolina,
was related to the 1669 charter of the
Carolina Colony
(the
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
), drawn up by the
1st Earl of Shaftesbury
and his secretary
John Locke
, which granted
liberty of conscience
to all settlers, and expressly noted "Jews, heathens, and dissenters."
Sephardic Jews
from
London
were among the early settlers in the city and colony, and comprised most of its Jewish community into the early 1800s. In 1800
South Carolina
had the largest Jewish population of any of the United States.
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