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Sep 19, 2002 · Slavery in Colonial Georgia. Between 1735 and 1750 Georgia was the only British American colony to attempt to prohibit Black slavery as a matter of public policy. The decision to ban slavery was made by the founders of Georgia, the Trustees.
Mar 1, 2017 · Liberty and Slavery in Colonial America: The Case of Georgia, 1732–1770. Andrew C. Lannen. First published: 01 March 2017. https://doi.org/10.1111/hisn.12420. Read the full text.
During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery. The colony of the Province of Georgia under James Oglethorpe banned slavery in 1735, the only one of the thirteen colonies to have done so.
Aug 9, 2024 · How did Georgia economically survive as the southernmost British North American Colony without allowing slavery, as well as other categories that economically benefited colonies in British...
Jan 10, 2020 · Various debates over slavery's morality in the South, including Georgia, are summarized in J.E. Chaplin, “Slavery and the Principle of Humanity: A Modern Idea in the Early Lower South,” Journal of Social History 2, 1990, 299–315.
- Andrew C. Lannen
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Oct 20, 2003 · When the Georgia Trustees first envisioned their colonial experiment in the early 1730s, they banned slavery in order to avoid the slave-based plantation economy that had developed in other colonies in the American South. The allure of profits from slavery, however, proved to be too powerful for white Georgia settlers to resist.
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Georgia’s history of slavery in the colonial period can be divided into two main phases. In the first phase, from 1732 to 1751, slavery was prohibited, and an organized group of colonists mounted a campaign to make slavery legal.
