Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — Moors in South Carolina. [ARTICLE]

Moors in South Carolina.

It may not be generally kn >wn th it some of the best families in South Carolina are boors by descent. The blood of the African soon washes out-, but that of the Indian and .he Moor, after half a score of generations, Shows itself almost as strongly as ever. The crisp, curling black hair, dark sad eyes, long silken lashes, and swarth complexion, come up gener ition alter gc ne. ation. Many of our old Huguenot families, <lown tothe present day, show strong traces of their M >orish descent. When the Moors were driven out from Spain, upon the conquest of Granada, thausunds of them took refuge in tne south o' Franc-?, carrying with them the art of cultivating the vine Hnd of growing silk. Remembering their bitter persecutions in Spain they never could become Catholics, though for. ed by their posi ion to ren tu'ice M tho-median.-m and become Christi ms. They became eventually Protestants, and when the revocation of the Edict of Nantes took place, withdrawing toleration from the Protestant religion, they were again driven to se< k new homes, and in large numbers emigrated to South Carolina.— Clarendon Ban.