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Author_Noeleen McIlvenna
Battle of Bloody Marsh
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Bolzius
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colonial Augusta
Colonial Georgia
colonial history
colonial Savannah
Earl of Egmont
Ebenezer
eighteenth-century Georgia
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George Whitefield
Georgia Trustees
Great Awakening in Georgia
James Habersham
James Oglethorpe
Malcontents
Mary Musgrove
Moll Flanders
Purrysburg
Red String plot
Salzbergers
slavery banned
social class in American colonies
Tomochichi
Trustee-era Georgia
War of Jenkins Ear
William Stephens
Product details
- ISBN 9781469624037
- Weight: 247g
- Dimensions: 157 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2015
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For twenty years in the eighteenth century, Georgia - the last British colony in what became the United States - enjoyed a brief period of free labor, where workers were not enslaved and were paid. The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia created a ""Georgia experiment"" of philanthropic enterprise and moral reform for poor white workers, though rebellious settlers were more interested in shaking off the British social system of deference to the upper class. Only a few elites in the colony actually desired the slave system, but those men, backed by expansionist South Carolina planters, used the laborers' demands for high wages as examples of societal unrest. Through a campaign of disinformation in London, they argued for slavery, eventually convincing the Trustees to abandon their experiment.
In The Short Life of Free Georgia, Noeleen McIlvenna chronicles the years between 1732 and 1752 and challenges the conventional view that Georgia's colonial purpose was based on unworkable assumptions and utopian ideals. Rather, Georgia largely succeeded in its goals - until self-interested parties convinced England that Georgia had failed, leading to the colony's transformation into a replica of slaveholding South Carolina.
In The Short Life of Free Georgia, Noeleen McIlvenna chronicles the years between 1732 and 1752 and challenges the conventional view that Georgia's colonial purpose was based on unworkable assumptions and utopian ideals. Rather, Georgia largely succeeded in its goals - until self-interested parties convinced England that Georgia had failed, leading to the colony's transformation into a replica of slaveholding South Carolina.
Noeleen Mcilvenna is associate professor of history at Wright State University, USA and author of A Very Mutinous People.
