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The Brass Ankles of South Carolina were a tri-racial isolate group as defined by anthropologists that developed in colonial South Carolina and lived successively in the areas of Charleston Berkeley Colleton) and Orangeburg counties as they increasingly migrated away from the Low Country and into the Piedmont and frontier areas where racial discrimination was less. They were identified by this term in the later 18th 19th and early 20th centuries.