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The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South

The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South

McIlvenna, Noeleen

Paperback

Colonial Period (1600-1775)General Racism & Ethnic StudiesRegional: South

ISBN10: 1469624036
ISBN13: 9781469624037
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 26 2015
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.21 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

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.

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