Georgia was the only British colony in America in which a sustained
effort was made to prohibit the introduction and use of black
slaves at a time when the institution of slavery was well
established in the other southern colonies.
In the first half of "Slavery in Colonial Georgia," Betty Wood
examines the reasons which prompted James Oglethorpe and the other
British founders of the colony to originally ban slavery. In their
concern for the manners and morals of white society, she says, they
anticipated many of the arguments to be employed subsequently by
the opponents of slavery on both sides of the Atlantic. The second
half of the book examines the development of slavery in Georgia
during the quarter century before the Revolution, with special
attention on the experience of black slaves in late colonial
Georgia.
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