Founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment.
Thurmond rewrites the prehistory of abolitionism and adds an important new chapter to Georgia\'s origin story..
Utilizing more than two decades of meticulous research, fresh historical analysis, and compelling storytelling, Michael L.
Oglethorpe\'s unique friendships with Ayuba Suleiman Diallo and Olaudah Equiano, two of eighteenth-century England\'s most influential Black men, are little-known examples of interracial antislavery activism that breathed life into the formal Abolitionist movement.
James Oglethorpe , Father of Georgia uncovers how Oglethorpe\'s philosophical and moral evolution from Slave Trader to Abolitionist was propelled by his intellectual relationships with two formerly enslaved Black men.
His outspoken opposition to the transatlantic Slave trade distinguished Oglethorpe from British colonial America\'s more celebrated founding fathers.
Due primarily to Oglethorpe\'s strident advocacy, Georgia was the only British American colony to prohibit chattel slavery prior to the American Revolutionary War.
Most significantly, Oglethorpe and his fellow Trustees were convinced that economic vitality could not be achieved through the exploitation of enslaved Black laborers.
Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered England\'s worthy poor and persecuted Christians an opportunity to achieve financial security in the New World by exporting goods produced on small farms.
Founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment
