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The Georgia Experiment was the colonial-era policy prohibiting the ownership of slaves in the Georgia Colony.At the urging of Georgia's proprietor, General James Oglethorpe, and his fellow colonial trustees, the British Parliament formally codified prohibition in 1735, three years after the colony's founding.
"Oglethorpe, William Stephens, and the Origin of Georgia Politics". Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years. The University of Alabama Press. 2009. pp. 80– 98. ISBN 978-0-8173-8230-8. "Oglethorpe's Contest for the Backcountry, 1733–1749". Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years.
The Oglethorpe Plan was an embodiment of all of the major themes of the Enlightenment, including science, humanism, and secular government.Georgia became the only American colony infused at its creation with Enlightenment ideals: the last of the Thirteen Colonies, it would become the first to embody the principles later embraced by the founders.
The slave ban was widely ignored when Oglethorpe left Georgia for good in 1743, and its enforcement dwindled in his absence. By the time American colonists declared independence in 1776, slavery ...
Dunbar subsequently served as Oglethorpe's aide in Georgia and in Oglethorpe's campaign against the Spanish in 1745. Oglethorpe went to Georgia in 1736, with the approval of his fellow Trustees, to found two new settlements on the frontiers, Frederica on St. Simons Island and Augusta at the headwaters of the Savannah River in Indian country ...
The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America, or simply the Georgia Trustees, was a body organized by James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison conditions in Britain. After being granted a royal charter in 1732, Oglethorpe led the first group of colonists to the new ...
Oglethorpe led the expedition that established Georgia as the last of Britain's 13 American colonies in February 1733. A Black author takes a new look at Georgia's white founder and his failed ...
The written word can have a lasting impact. That’s what happened in 1996 when Athens native Michael Thurmond joined a Georgia delegation to England to participate in the 300 th birthday ...