Spite of the shortcomings of the settlement as regarded the Grand Model, Governor Yeamans was created landgrave, and Albemarle being dead, Lord Berkeley had become palatine. Yeamans introduced negro slavery, bringing with him a cargo of slaves from Barbadoes. The heat of the climate rendered labour difficult to the whites, and from its first settlement, South Carolina was a slave state; besides which, these settlers seem to have been somewhat an improvident and shiftless set of people, deriving their supplies for several years from the proprietaries, for which, though obtained as purchases, they appear never to have paid; complaining bitterly when the proprietaries, objecting naturally enough to supply them on these terms, declared that “they would no longer continue to feed and to clothe them.” To such men it would soon become an object to possess negro slaves, without which, it was early said, “a planter can never do any great matter.” The climate of South Carolina was not only congenial to the negro, but, as we have seen, the temper of the people made them willingly avail themselves of slave-labour, and very soon the slave population far outnumbered the whites. The management of Sir John, or Landgrave Yeamans not being by any means satisfactory to the proprietaries, nor yet to the colony, he was recalled in 1674, and Joseph West, whose conduct had been perfectly so to all parties, was appointed governor and created landgrave, and to him the proprietaries made over as salary their outstanding claims against the colony—the surest means of trying his popularity. Nevertheless, we find, at the end of ten years, that “he received the whole product of his traffic, as the reward of his services, without any impeachment of his morals.” The proprietaries, seeing the character of the emigrants they had sent over, encouraged settlers from the New England and the northern colonies; and with a desire to promote the advantage of the industrious, sent over further supplies, informing the colony, however, that they must be paid, being determined “to make no more desperate debts.”