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- The Spanish offer of freedom to slaves in exchange for military service would undermine Georgia’s security. The trustees also wanted to avoid South Carolina’s fate: large-scale indigo and rice plantations worked with slave labor created huge disparities in wealth and a black majority.
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Sep 19, 2002 · 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.
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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.
Finally, the trustees prohibited Negro slavery, for they believed that this ban would encourage the settlement of "English and Christian" people. Georgia's first year, 1733, went well enough, as settlers began to clear the land, build houses, and construct fortifications.
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.
Jan 23, 2004 · The American Revolution (1775-83) probably affected both the system of slavery and the lives of enslaved individuals more in Georgia than in any other British colony. The disruption of the war offered the prospect of freedom to many thousands of enslaved people, but ultimately the reestablishment of the plantation economy after 1782 ensured ...
At a time when slavery thrived in the American colonies, Georgia, you may be surprised, was alone in banning it. But it wasn’t a moral decision. The Georgia Trustees prohibited slavery because it conflicted with their vision of small landowners prospering from their own labor.
Aug 9, 2024 · Abstract. Few historical works underscore the founding of Georgia and its path to success as the thirteenth and final British North American Colony. How did Georgia economically survive as...
