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I want to correct your speaker about John Oglethorpe and the Savannah charter What was forbidden: no drinking of alcohol-led to inability to function & be productive, no Papists fearing influence with Spanish colony to the south (Georgia was to be a buffer), no lawyers because they had caused these settlers to be in debtors prison for generations, no slavery because free slave labor would lead to laziness. He didn't care one way or the other about slavery or the plight of Africans.

When building the city required more labor than colonists could provide, plantations in South Carolina lent slaves-but that set the stage Later slavery came to the colony to stay. He later quit the governorship as he did not like the turn of events. (Oglethorpe also brought cotton seeds to the colony.)

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The angle from which you proceed here leads me into historical questions I had not contemplated. Thank you for this.

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Unaware and now need to research. Thank you

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