The Barbadian Adventurers were groups of English-descended colonists who migrated from the English colony of Barbados to establish and settle the Province of Carolina.
In the early 17th century Barbadians began large-scale migration from Barbados to the areas of North and South Carolina, becoming among some of the first resident settlers in those states.
The first English settlement in South Carolina was made in 1670, when three shiploads of emigrants from Barbados sailed up the Ashley River.
The group, which focused upon their trade in Native and African slaves, became a major political clique in the Carolina colony in opposition to the interests of the Lords proprietors.
[5][6][7] The Goose Creek Men also brought with them the parish system and a strong allegiance to Anglicanism, which led to resentment against non-Anglican sects encouraged by the Lords Proprietors to migrate to the Carolina colony, including Quakers, Huguenots, English Baptist, and Scottish Presbyterians.