SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia's colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments ...
Proceedings of a symposium held in Savannah, Ga., Feb. 8-10, 1983. NMAI copy 39088017702960 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Prologue: The founding of Georgia / Kenneth Coleman -- [1.
He says the Georgia colony ultimately protected slavery in its sister colonies by serving as a "white equivalent of the Berlin Wall” between South Carolina and Spanish Florida.Oglethorpe used slave ...